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Duke Ellington
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Grant Green
393,004 listeners
Grant Green (St. Louis, Missouri, June 6, 1935 – New York, January 31, 1979; some sources erroneously give the birth year as 1931) was a jazz guitarist and composer. Recording prolifically and almost exclusively for Blue Note Records (as both leader and sideman) Green performed well in hard bop, … read more -
McCoy Tyner
500,107 listeners
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Dizzy Gillespie
641,489 listeners
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Frank Sinatra
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Charles Mingus
910,080 listeners
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Dinah Washington
983,239 listeners
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Freddie Hubbard
412,067 listeners
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