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Dave Bartholomew
A longtime pillar of the New Orleans rhythm and blues community, Dave Bartholomew was a trumpeter, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, producer, bandleader, and astute businessman.
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Dave Oxley
Dave Oxley was a traditional jazz and early rhythm and blues drummer from New Orleans.
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Dennis McGee
Dennis McGee was the most influential of all twentieth-century Cajun fiddle players, having directly taught or indirectly influenced three generations of fiddlers.
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Dew Drop Inn
From the mid-1940s through the 1960s, the Dew Drop Inn was a place where prominent African American entertainers could find work and respectable overnight lodging.
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Dew Drop Social & Benevolent Jazz Hall
A rural jazz hall in the early twentieth century, the Dew Drop Social & Benevolent Jazz Hall experienced a revival in the early twenty-first century.
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Dewey Balfa
Dewey Balfa was a Cajun musician and cultural activist who emerged in the 1970s as an effective spokesman for the grassroots Cajun identity movement.
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Dick Allen
Jazz historian Dick Allen was instrumental in the founding of the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane and was a curator of the archive from 1958 to 1980.
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Dinos Constantinides
Dinos Constantinides' orchestral works have been performed to rave reviews by symphony orchestras throughout the world, including premiers at Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band began in 1977 as the Dirty Dozen Social and Pleasure Club by blending the music and culture of traditional New Orleans brass bands with social and pleasure club second lines.
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Dolly Adams
Jazz pianist Dolly Adams was a respected musician and band leader in New Orleans from the 1920s through the 1970s.
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Doug Kershaw
Doug Kershaw is a Cajun fiddler, singer, and songwriter who cemented his place in American popular music at the height of the 1960s counter-culture movement with two self-penned hits, "Louisiana Man" and "Diggy Diggy Lo."
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Dr. John
Dr. John was an important New Orleans-born rhythm and blues singer, composer, and keyboardist.
