Ragtime Composers
Scott Joplin
Joseph Lamb
James Scott
Tom Turpin
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Pioneers
W.C. Handy
Jelly Roll Morton
James P. Johnson
Elmer Schoebel
Clarence Williams
Spencer Williams
Don Redman
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Classic Songwriters of teh 1920s and 30s
| Duke Ellington | Irving Berlin |
| George Gershwin | Jerome Kern |
| Harold Arlen | Cole Porter |
| Hoagy Carmichael | Richard Rodgers |
| Fats Waller | Edgar Sampson |
| Benny Carter | |
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Major Contributors to Jazz's Modern Repertoire
| Billy Strayhorn | Charlie Parker |
| Dizzy Gillespie | Thelonious Monk |
| Tadd Dameron | Gil Evans |
| Lennie Tristano | Gerry Mulligan |
| Shorty Rogers | Sonny Rollins |
| Horace Silver | Benny Golson |
| Kenny Dorham | Randy Weston |
| John Lewis | Thad Jones |
| Bobby Timmons | Johnny Mandel |
| Wayne Shorter | Tony Williams |
| Wynton Marsalis | Terence Blanchard |
| Pat Metheny | Antonio Carlos Jobim |
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Avantgarde
| Charles Mingus | Herbie Nichols |
| George Russell | Ornette Coleman |
| Carla Bley | Muhal Richard Abrams |
| Anthony Braxton | Julius Hemphill |
| Henry Threadgill | Maria Schneider |
| Bob Moses | |
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Fusion
| Joe Zawinul | Jaco Pastorius |
| Chick Corea | Herbie Hancock |
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