Cab Calloway

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Louis Armstrong

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Louis Jordan

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Duke Ellington

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Bill Robinson

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Nat King Cole

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Lena Horne

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Charlie Parker

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Dizzy Gillespie

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Count Basie

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Fats Waller

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Fletcher Henderson

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The Mills Brothers

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Sidney Bechet

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Dorothy Dandridge

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Billy Eckstine

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Warren Schaefer

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