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Duke Ellington 10x 30.0% stumper $630 avg J:2 DJ:8

DJ $400 2012 On April 29, 1986, the United States Post Office released astamphonoring this pianist & bandleader

J $500 DD 1991 This bandleader's theme song was "Take the 'A' Train"

DJ $1,000 1991 His son Mercer has led his band since his death in 1974

Ella Fitzgerald 9x 22.2% stumper $633 avg J:2 DJ:7

J $200 2022 Known for her scat singing, she received 14 Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award in 1967

DJ $800 2006 (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Smithsonian Institution.) This Grammy is one of 13 awarded to this jazz singer called "The First Lady of Song"

DJ $1,200 2006 "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" was the first hit for this woman honored by the NEA as the first vocal jazz master

Louis Armstrong 8x $300 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $100 1991 His nickname was a contraction of "satchel mouth"

DJ $200 1998 He was known as Pops as well as Satchmo

DJ $200 1994 In 1964 he reached No. 1 on the pop charts with his vocal rendition of "Hello, Dolly!"

Charlie Parker 8x 14.3% stumper $857 avg J:3 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 2001 This saxman is seenhereon a 1995 stamp tooting his own horn

DJ $1,600 2003 Recordings by this bebop alto saxophonist include "Carvin' the Bird", "Yardbird Suite" & "Bird Feathers"

FJ 1994 Real name of the American jazz musician whose compositions include "Ornithology"

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Count Basie 7x 14.3% stumper $829 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 1997 "Take The 'A' Train" was Duke Ellington's theme & "One O'Clock Jump" was this "noble" bandleader's

DJ $600 1990 For over 50 years "One O'Clock Jump" has been his band's theme song

J $1,000 2022 Seen here tickling the ivories, he got his famous nickname from an announcer who equated him with jazz aristocrats like Duke Ellington

Miles Davis 6x 16.7% stumper $700 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2019 "Miles Ahead" is a classic 1957 album by this trumpeter

J $800 2022 Here'sa bit of "So What", the lead track from this trumpeter's 1959 album "Kind of Blue"

DJ $1,000 1987 Playboy called this trumpeter's "Kind of Blue" the best jazz album of all time

Lionel Hampton 4x 25.0% stumper $1,000 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 2001 The Benny Goodman Quartet consisted of Goodman, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson & this vibes player

DJ $1,000 1989 Benny Goodman's original quartet included drummer Gene Krupa, pianist Teddy Wilson & this vibraphonist

DJ $800 1991 This pioneer vibraphonist played with the Benny Goodman Quartet 1936-40

Fats Waller 4x 75.0% stumper $1,000 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2013 This nearly 300-lb. jazz great who gave us "Honeysuckle Rose" died tragically young at 39

DJ $800 1995 This composer of "Ain't Misbehavin'" was taught by both stride & classical pianists

DJ $1,200 2015 "Ain't Misbehavin'" is a biography of this jazz great written by his manager Ed Kirkeby

Billie Holiday 4x 25.0% stumper $375 avg J:3 DJ:1

DJ $200 1997 Known as "Lady Day", she began her recording career with Benny Goodman in November 1933

J $500 1999 On April 7, 1986 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame--nearly 27 years after her death

J $200 1994 In April 1985 Baltimore unveiled a statue to this singer known as Lady Day

Dave Brubeck 4x $850 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1989 His quartet, featuring Paul Desmond on alto sax, reached the pop charts in 1961 with "Take Five"

DJ $800 2012 This "Take Five" pianist was named a "living legend" in 2003 by the Library of Congress

DJ $1,000 1995 This pianist used unusual time signatures such as 9/8 in "Blue Rondo a la Turk" & 5/4 in "Take Five"

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Earl "Fatha" Hines 3 Django Reinhardt 3 Dizzy 3 Cab Calloway 3 Buddy Rich 3 Wynton Marsalis 3 Dizzy Gillespie 3 Woody Herman 2 Thelonious Monk 2 New Orleans 2 George Benson 2 Gene Krupa 2 Fats 2 Erroll Garner 2 Dixieland 2 Chick 2 Cannonball 2 Branford Marsalis 2 Bix 2 Benny Goodman 2 "Take The 'A' Train" 2 "My Favorite Things" 2 "Dizzy" 2 vibes 2 the swing 2 the double bass 2 the clarinet 2 a saxophone 2 Duke 2

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