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Miles Davis
Miles Davis
American musician
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
American musician
Herb Alpert
Herb Alpert
American trumpeter and music industry executive
Doc Cheatham
American musician
Don Cherry
American musician
Wynton Marsalis
American musician
Donald Byrd
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
American musician
Clifford Brown.
Clifford Brown
American musician
Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton
American musician

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