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George Sheraing

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Bebop Piano

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Jim Hall

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Cool Guitar

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Serge Chaloff

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Bebop Four Brothers

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George Benson

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Hard Bop Guitar

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Carl Fontana

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Cool Trombone Player Considered by many as second to JJ Johnson

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Kenny Burrell

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Harp Bop Guitar (most recorded jazz guitarist ever)

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Cannonball Adderly

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Hard Bop Alto Sax

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Dave Brubeck

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Cool Piano Player Leader of his own quartet Two albums: “Jazz goes to college” and “Time Out”

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John Coletrane

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Hard Bop Tenor Sax and composer

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Max Roach (no era)

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Hard Bop and Bebop Drummer

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11
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Shorty Rogers

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Cool Trumpet Composer and arranger

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Wes Montgomery (signature trademark?)

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Hard Bop Guitar

Played with his thumb

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13
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Art Farmer

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Cool Trumpet Flugel Horn

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Ray Brown

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Bebop Bass Player Known as one of the masters of the walking bass style, where the bass player is “backing up” the soloist.

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Ahmad Jamal

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Hard Bop Piano

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Stan Kenton (no era)

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Band Leader

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17
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Lester Young

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Influenced both hard bop and cool Tenor sax and clarinet

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18
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Bud Powell

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Bebop Piano

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Dizzy Gillespie

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Bebop Trumpet, band leader, composer

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20
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Benny Golson

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Hard Bop Tenor Sax

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21
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Curtis Fuller

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Hard Bop Trombone

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22
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Shelly Mane

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Cool Drummer

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JJ Johnson (multiple eras)

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Hard Bop and Bebop Trombone

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24
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Horace Silver

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Hard Bop Piano Composer and arranger

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25
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Stan Getz

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Bebop Four Brothers Tenor Sax

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26
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Philly Joe Jones

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Hard Bop Drummer

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27
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Thelonius Monk

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Bebop Piano and composer

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Paul Desmond

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Cool Alto Saxophone Featured member of Dave Brubeck quartet

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29
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Gerry Mulligan

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Cool Baritone Saxophone, composer and arranger

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30
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Lee Morgan

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Hard Bop Trumpet Composer

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31
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Thad Jones

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Hard Bop Trumpet, Composer, big band leader

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32
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Tommy Flanagan

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Hard Bop Piano

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33
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Gerald Wilson

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Hard Bop Trumpet, composer, big band leader

34
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Jimmy Smith

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Hard Bop Organ

35
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Cedar Walton

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Hard Bop Piano

36
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Lennie Tristano

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Cool Pianist/composer/band leader Played with “locked hands” (hands together or moving in the same fashion) Used collective improvisation (more than one improviser playing at a given time)

37
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“Brother” Jack McDuff

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Hard Bop Organ

38
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Gene Ammons

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Hard Bop Tenor Sax

39
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Pat Martino

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Hard Bop Guitar

40
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Art Pepper

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Cool Alto Saxophone

41
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Jimmy Giuffre

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Cool Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, and arranger

42
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Art Tatum

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Bebop Piano

43
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Oscar Pettiford

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Bebop Bass

44
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Oscar Petersen

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Bebop Piano

45
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Maynard Ferguson

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Hard Bop Only caucasian big band leader

46
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Chico Hamilton

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Cool Drummer

47
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Zoot Sims

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Bebeop Four Brothers

48
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Sonny Rollins

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Hard Bop Tenor Sax Composer and band leader

49
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Lee Konitz

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Cool Alto Saxophone

50
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Frank Rosolino

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Cool Trombone

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John Coletrane (no era)

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Tenor sax, band leader, composer

52
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Miles Davis (no era)

53
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Charlie Parker

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Bebop Alto and tenor sax Very important saxophonist and improviser

54
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Art Blakey

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Hard Bop Drummer Jazz messengers

55
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Gil Evans

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Cool “Birth of the Cool” composer with Miles Davis

56
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Kenny Clarke

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Bebop Drummer

57
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Sonny Stitt

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Bebop Tenor sax

58
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Bob Brookmeyer

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Cool Trombone Arranger and Composer

59
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Freddie Hubbard

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Hard Bop Trumpet

60
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Dexter Gordon

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Bebop tenor sax

61
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Grant Green

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Hard Bop Guitar

62
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Joe Henderson

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Hard Bop Tenor Sax and composer

63
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Charles Mingus

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Bebop Bass Composer and band leader

64
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Joe Pass

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Hard Bop Guitar

65
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Fatz Navarro

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Bebop Trumpet

66
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Chet Baker

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Cool Trumpet

67
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Herbie Steward

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Bebop Four Brothers

68
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Tad Dammeron

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Bebop Composer

69
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Jack Sheldon

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Cool Trumpet

70
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Jimmy McGriff

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Hard Bop Organ

71
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Clifford Brown

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Hard Bop Trumpet

72
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Bill Evans

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Cool

Piano and composer

73
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Al Hiag

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Bebop

Piano

74
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McCoy Tyner

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Piano

John Coletrane Quartet

75
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Jimmy Garrison

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Bass

John Coletrane Quartet

76
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Elvin Jones

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Hard Bop

Drummer

John Coletrane Quartet

77
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Charlie Chrisitian

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Bebop and Cool

Guitar

78
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Brother Nat Adderly

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Hard Bop

Trumpet

79
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Mel Lewis (no era)

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Drummer

Band Leader

80
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Woody Herman (no era)

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Clarinet, Alto and Soprano Sax, Band Leader

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