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  2. Category:Jazz musicians from New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    J. Preston Jackson. Tony Jackson (pianist) New Orleans Willie Jackson. William Manuel Johnson. Bunk Johnson. Cee Pee Johnson. Lonnie Johnson (musician) Smokey Johnson.

  3. Music of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    Edmond Hall The use of brass marching bands came long before jazz music through their use in the military, though in New Orleans many of the best-known musicians had their start in brass marching bands performing dirges as well as celebratory and upbeat tunes for New Orleans jazz funeral processions from the 1890s onward. The tradition drove onward with musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Henry ...

  4. Louis Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    Armstrong is believed to have been born in New Orleans on August 4, 1901, but the date has been heavily debated. Armstrong himself often claimed he was born on July 4, 1900.

  5. Wynton Marsalis - Wikipedia

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    Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first ...

  6. George Lewis (clarinetist) - Wikipedia

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    Musician. Instrument. Clarinet. Years active. 1917–68. Labels. American Music, Decca, Victor, GHB. George Lewis (born Joseph Louis Francois Zenon; July 13, 1900 – December 31, 1968) [1] was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his highest profile in the later decades of his life.

  7. Nick LaRocca - Wikipedia

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    Formerly of. Original Dixieland Jass Band. Dominic James " Nick " LaRocca[1] (April 11, 1889 – February 22, 1961), was an American early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band, who is credited by some as being "the father of modern jazz". [2] He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics ...

  8. Jelly Roll Morton - Wikipedia

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    Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (né Lemott, [2] later Morton; c. September 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. [3] Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential ...

  9. Dixieland jazz - Wikipedia

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    jazz (word) Dixieland jazz, also referred to as traditional jazz, hot jazz, or simply Dixieland, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. The 1917 recordings by the Original Dixieland Jass Band (which shortly thereafter changed the spelling of its name to "Original Dixieland Jazz Band ...

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