SS - Southeast Region
Southeast Region - CD Project

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Possible Jazz & Blues Artists to Research

Virginia

  • Karen Briggs

  • Rob Brown

  • Ruth Brown

  • Charlie Byrd

  • Robert Cray

  • Archie Edwards

  • Ella Fitzgerald

  • Tiny Grimes

  • Cliff Jackson

  • John Jackson

  • Tommy Newsom

  • Don Pullen

  • Keely Smith

  • Victor Wooten


North Carolina

  • Thelonious Monk

  • John Coltrane

  • Max Roach

  • Tal Farlow

  • Lou Donaldson

  • Tina Brooks

  • Woody Shaw

  • Billy Taylor

  • June Tyson

  • Percy Heath

  • Blind Boy Fuller

  • Carolina Slim

  • Etta Baker

  • John Dee Holeman


South Carolina

  • Jabbo Smith

  • Dizzy Gillespie

  • Johnny Helmms

  • Chris Potter


Georgia

  • Ray Charles

  • Otis Redding

  • James Brown

  • The Allman Brothers Band


Florida

  • Dean Dewberry

  • Robert Thomas, Jr.

  • Panama Francis

  • Archie Shepp

  • Cannonball Adderley

  • Billie Pierce

  • Pete Minger

  • Arturo Sandoval

  • Gabriel Brown

  • Buster Bennett


Alabama

  • Cleveland Eaton

  • Ray Reach

  • Johnny Smith

  • Erskine Hawkins

  • Tommy Stewart

  • Hugh Martin

  • Sammy Lowe


Mississippi

  • Charlie Musselwhite

  • Willie Dixon

  • B. B. King

  • Charlie Patton

  • Muddy Waters

  • Howlin Wolf

  • John Hurt

  • Honey Boy Edwards

  • Lester Young

  • Mose Allison

  • Milt Hilton

  • Dardanelle Hadley


Louisiana

  • Mia Borders

  • Slim Harpo

  • Lightnin’ Slim

  • Kenny Nea

  • Moses “Whispering” Smith

  • Katie Webster

  • Robert Pete Williams

  • Marcia Ball

  • Tuts Washington

  • Clifton Chenier


Arkansas

  • William Lee Conley “Big Bill” Broonzy

  • Chester “Howlin’ Wolf” Burnett

  • Ernie and Earl Cate

  • Willie Cobbs

  • James Cotton

  • Levon Helm

  • Al Green

  • Larry “Totsy” Davis


Tennessee

  • Memphis Jug Band

  • The Two Poor Boys

  • Hammie Nixon

  • Brownie McGhee

  • W.C. Handy

  • Booker T. Laury

  • B. B. King

  • Johnny Ace

  • Willie Nix

  • Alberta Hunter

  • Bessie Smith

  • Joyce Cobb


Kentucky

  • Lionel Hampton

  • Rosemary Clooney

  • Porter Grainger

  • Sara Martin

  • Rosa Henderson

  • Edith Wilson


West Virginia

  • Johnnie Johnson

  • Blind Joe Hill

  • Frank Hutchison

  • Nat Reese

  • Musa Kaleem

  • Art Simmons

  • Leon “Chu” Berry

  • Cuba Austin