swap_horiz Joey DeFrancesco Alternatives

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Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker was a highly influential American jazz musician primarily known for his innovative contributions to bebop...

Virtuoso Modern Classic Bebop

9.9 Brilliant

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Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie was a highly influential American jazz musician renowned for his virtuosic trumpet playing and significa...

Classic Bebop Trumpet Bandleader

9.6 Brilliant

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Oscar Peterson

Oscar Peterson was a highly acclaimed Canadian jazz pianist renowned for his exceptional technical skill and rhythmic pr...

Virtuoso Classic Piano Swing

9.5 Brilliant

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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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Art Blakey

Art Blakey was a pivotal figure in jazz music as a drummer and bandleader. His work with the Jazz Messengers established...

Classic Hard Bop Drums Bandleader

9.4 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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Bud Powell

Bud Powell was an American jazz pianist who translated bebop's fast horn lines to piano, shaping modern jazz keyboard st...

Virtuoso Modern Classic Piano

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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Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown was an American trumpeter admired for lyric virtuosity, co-leading the Brown-Roach quintet from 1954 unti...

Virtuoso Classic Hard Bop Bebop

9.3 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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Jaco Pastorius

Jaco Pastorius was an American electric bassist whose fretless sound transformed jazz fusion through Weather Report and...

Virtuoso Classic Fusion Electric Bass

9.1 Excellent

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Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman was a U.S. clarinetist and bandleader called the King of Swing after his integrated band played Carnegie H...

Classic Swing Big Band Clarinet

9.0 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

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Fats Navarro

Fats Navarro was an American bebop trumpeter, a 1940s pioneer whose brief career influenced Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan,...

Virtuoso Classic Brass Bebop

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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Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke is an American bassist and composer who helped define jazz fusion and jazz-rock with Return to Forever in...

Bass Virtuoso Classic Electric

8.8 Great

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Dr. Lonnie Smith

Dr. Lonnie Smith was an American Hammond B-3 organist noted for soul-jazz grooves and a turbaned stage image, issuing th...

Classic Funk Organ Groove

8.2 Great

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Shirley Scott

Shirley Scott was an American jazz organist from Philadelphia who became a leading Hammond B-3 voice, making 1960s soul-...

Classic Organ Hard Bop Combo

7.8 Good