swap_horiz George Benson Alternatives

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong was a pivotal figure in early 20th-century American music. As a trumpeter and vocalist, he significantly...

Classic Swing Vocals New Orleans

9.9 Brilliant

2

Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday was an American jazz musician renowned for her distinctive vocal style. Her interpretations of blues and...

Classic Blues Swing Vocals

9.7 Brilliant

3

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald is an iconic American jazz vocalist celebrated globally for her exceptional vocal range and improvisatio...

Classic Songbook Swing Vocals

9.6 Brilliant

4

Wes Montgomery

Wes Montgomery was a highly distinctive jazz guitarist known for his innovative use of octave playing achieved primarily...

Classic Guitar Hard Bop Soul Jazz

9.5 Brilliant

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Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt was a Belgian-born guitarist who co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1934 and became a pi...

Classic European Guitar Swing

9.3 Excellent

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Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan was a U.S. singer whose wide range and bebop phrasing earned her major postwar acclaim and a 1989 Grammy L...

Virtuoso Classic Bebop Vocals

9.3 Excellent

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Cannonball Adderley

Cannonball Adderley was an American alto saxophonist linked to hard bop and soul jazz, heard on Miles Davis's 1959 album...

Classic Hard Bop Funky Soul Jazz

9.3 Excellent

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Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole was an American jazz pianist and singer who led the King Cole Trio from 1937 and hosted a national televis...

Classic Piano Swing Vocals

9.2 Excellent

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Jimmy Smith

Jimmy Smith was an American jazz organist who popularized the Hammond B-3 in hard bop and soul jazz, recording The Sermo...

Classic Organ Hard Bop Blue Note

9.2 Excellent

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Horace Silver

Horace Silver was an American pianist and composer, a hard bop founder who co-led the Jazz Messengers and wrote Song for...

Composer Classic Piano Hard Bop

9.1 Excellent

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Rahsaan Roland Kirk was an American multi-instrumentalist famed for playing multiple horns at once and for the 1969 albu...

Classic Avant Garde Flute Soul Jazz

9.1 Excellent

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John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin is an English guitarist who fused jazz and rock with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and played on Miles Davis'...

Classic Guitar Fusion Indian Jazz

9.1 Excellent

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Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan was an American trumpeter and hard bop star whose 1963 Blue Note recording The Sidewinder became a crossover...

Classic Hard Bop Blue Note Soul Jazz

9.0 Excellent

14

Charlie Christian

Charlie Christian was a U.S. guitarist whose amplified single-note solos with Benny Goodman from 1939 helped launch mode...

Classic Guitar Electric Swing

8.9 Great

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Nina Simone

Nina Simone was an American singer, pianist, and civil rights voice whose 1964 song Mississippi Goddam joined jazz, clas...

Classic Piano Jazz Soul

8.9 Great

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Joe Pass

Joe Pass was an American jazz guitarist famed for solo chord-melody improvisation, documented on the 1973 album Virtuoso...

Virtuoso Classic Solo Guitar

8.9 Great

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Fats Waller

Fats Waller was a U.S. pianist, organist, and songwriter who advanced stride piano and recorded widely popular jazz side...

Classic Piano Organ Vocals

8.8 Great

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Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington was an American jazz and blues singer, nicknamed Queen of the Blues, whose 1959 hit What a Diff'rence a...

Classic Jazz Rnb Blues

8.7 Great

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Grant Green

Grant Green was an American jazz guitarist known for lean single-note lines and prolific Blue Note recordings, including...

Classic Guitar Hard Bop Blue Note

8.7 Great

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Kenny Burrell

Kenny Burrell is an American jazz guitarist whose blues-based style is central to hard bop, notably on his 1963 Blue Not...

Classic Guitar Blues Hard Bop

8.7 Great