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Donald Byrd

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Miles Davis

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

American musician

Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert

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Wynton Marsalis

American musician

Doc Cheatham

American musician

Don Cherry

American musician

Harry James in the early 1940s.

Harry James

American musician

Dizzy Gillespie, 1955.

Dizzy Gillespie

American musician

Chet Baker

Chet Baker

American musician and vocalist

Hugh Masekela

Hugh Masekela

South African musician

Tom Harrell

American musician

Benny Carter

Benny Carter

American musician

Roy Eldridge

Roy Eldridge

American musician

Humphrey Lyttelton, on the cover of the album Jazz Concert, released by Parlophone in 1953.

Humphrey Lyttelton

British musician

Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan

American musician

Cootie Williams

Cootie Williams

American musician

Bunk Johnson

Bunk Johnson

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Clifford Brown.

Clifford Brown

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Buck Clayton

Buck Clayton

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