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Joe Robichaux
Traditional jazz and early rhythm and blues pianist Joe Robichaux may be best remembered as bandleader of the New Orleans Rhythm Boys.
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Joseph Butler
Joseph Butler was a jazz bass player frequently heard at Preservation Hall in New Orleans's French Quarter.
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Louis Gallaud
Louis Gallaud, a pianist from the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, is known for the memorable recordings he made with Punch Miller.
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Often cited as the first American composer to gain international recognition, Louis Moreau Gottschalk wrote more than three hundred compositions and earned acclaim as a piano virtuoso.
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Marcia Ball
Marcia Ball, a blues and swamp-rock pianist and singer, grew-up in the small town of Vinton.
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Marie Théard
Marie Théard (Moses) achieved distinction as a pianist, piano teacher, collector, arranger, and translator of French and French Creole Patois songs of Louisiana.
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Octave Crosby
Octave Crosby's Original Dixieland Jazz Band was, for a time, the house band at the legendary Paddock Lounge on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
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Oscar Chicken Henry
Oscar “Chicken” Henry played both jazz piano and trombone in New Orleans in the mid-twentieth century.
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Paul Emile Johns
Paul Emile Johns is credited with the first performance of a Beethoven piano concerto, in New Orleans in 1819.
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Professor Longhair
Henry Roeland Byrd, also known as Professor Longhair, was a New Orleans rhythm & blues pianist who came to personify the city's cultural renaissance of the 1970s.
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Roosevelt Sykes
Barrelhouse pianist Roosevelt Sykes's style mixed rural and urban influences in bravura performances that some popular music historians consider the foundation for all modern blues piano.
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Sing Miller
Sing Miller was a traditional jazz and blues singer and piano player from New Orleans.
