Quincy Jones

Grammy Legend Award winner NEA jazz master, Academy award winner, Kennedy Center honors, 30+ Grammy Awards

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Stevie Wonder

25 Grammy awards; plus, he's Stevie Wonder!!! (WOW!!)

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Herbie Hancock

14 Grammy awards, NEA Jazzmaster, Kennedy Center Honors, 6 honorary doctorates, many keyboard player awards

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Dizzy Gillespie

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors, invented Bebop, Down beat magazine Hall of Fame

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Louis Bellson

NEA Jazz Master, invented double bass drum technique

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Slide Hampton

Grammy Award winner, NEA Jazz Master, trombone player/arranger

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Jon Faddis

trumpet player, educator

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Nancy Wilson

Grammy award winner, singer, civil rights activist

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Benny Golson

NEA Jazz Master, Downbeat Hall of Fame, composer, tenor saxophone

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Ahmad Jamal

NEA Jazz Master, Downbeat Magazine Hall of Fame, pianist

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Joshua Redman

4-time Downbeat Critics poll winner

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Monty Alexander

pianist

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Wycliff Gordon

trombone, trumpet, educator

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Freddy Cole

pianist, vocalist, composer, Nat's brother

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McCoy Tyner

NEA Jazz Master, Downbeat Hall of Fame, 5 Grammy Awards,

Coltane's pianist

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Jack Jones

2 Grammy Awards, vocalist

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Joe Williams

NEA Jazz Master, Downbeat Hall of Fame, Grammy Hall of Fame, vocalist

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Roy Hargrove

Downbeat Hall of Fame, 2 Grammy Awards, trumpet, flugelhorn, composer, bandleader

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Kurt Elling

2 Grammy awards, 10 time Grammy nominee, vocalist

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Nicholas Payton

Grammy award winner, 5 time nominee, trumpet, composer

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Joey DeFrancesco

4 time Grammy nominee, 9 time Downbeat magazine critic poll winner, organist

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Buddy DeFranco

20 awards from Downbeat magazine, NEA Jazz Master, Bebop clarinet

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Harry "Sweets" Edison

NEA Jazz Master, played with Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, trumpet

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Randy Brecker

6 Grammy Awards,trumpet, educator

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Jimmy Heath

NEA Jazz Master, Downbeat Hall of Fame, wrote over 125 compositions, tenor sax, composer, educator, band leader

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Benny Green

Grammy nominated, played with Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Ray Brown, Milt Jackson, Oscar Peterson, Betty Carter, pianist

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Kenny Barron

NEA Jazz Master, Downbeat Hall of Fame, 9-time Grammy nominee, on the faculty at Juilliard, pianist

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Diane Schuur

2 Grammy Awards, nominated 6 times, vocalist

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Michael Feinstein

5 Grammy nomination

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Marvin Hamlisch

EGOT/PEGOT

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Roberta Gambarini

2 Grammy nominations, vocalist

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Frank Wess

NEA Jazz Master, Downbeat critics poll winner for Flute 6 times, tenor saxophone, flute

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Ernie Watts

2 Grammy Awards, tenor sax

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Arturo Sandoval

10 Grammy awards, 19 nominations,  Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

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Kathleen Battle

5 Grammy Awards, Emmy award, Metropolitan Opera, operatic soprano

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Gunther Schuller

2 Grammy Awards, Pulitzer Prize winner, Lifetime Achievement Award Downbeat magazine

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Oscar Brown Jr.

playwright, lyricist, composer, civil rights icon

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And dozens more, including:

 

Clark Terry

Eddie Johnson

Henry Johnson

Harold Jones

Perrian Jordan

Frieda Lee

Spider Saloff

Mike Smith

Milton Suggs, Jr.

Opal Staples

Sid Caesar

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Nicholas Payton

John Von Ohlen

Ben Paterson

Houston Person

Judy Roberts

Maurizio Rolli

Randy Sabien

Doc Severinsen

Brother Jack McDuff

Sid Caesar

Rodney Whitaker

Walter White

Phil Wilson

Bobbi Wilsyn

Mark Wood

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Jordin Sparks

Matthew Morrison

Sylvia McNair

Chuchito Valdés

Eric Alexander

Dee Alexander

Cyrille Aimée

Alyssa Allgood

Rubén Alvarez

Ernie Andrews

David Baker

Ron Blake

Diane Madison

Paul Marinaro

Lou Marini

René Marie

Tammy McCann

Charles McPherson

Anthony Molinaro

Bobby Broom

“Gatemouth” Brown

Ann Hampton Callaway

Sonny Cohn

Joan Collaso

Larry Combs

Orbert Davis

Johnny Frigo

Von Freeman

Yvonne Gage

Larry Garner

Sarah Gazarek

Victor Goines

Allan Harris

Bruce Henry

Marquis Hill

Red Holloway

Ron Hawking

Typhanie Monique

John Moulder

Devin Thompson

Thaddeus Tukes

Frank Wess

Sarah Marie Young

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