This is a list of jazz musicians on whom Wikipedia has articles.
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“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
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“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
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