Explore the music of these great artists, influential in their time and well beyond. What influences could they have had on the music you listen to?

1. Billie Holiday: https://youtu.be/Z_1LfT1MvzI

2. Ella Fitzgerald: https://youtu.be/lhg2VlayHTI

3. Duke Ellington Orchestra: https://youtu.be/r95flkZciJ // https://youtu.be/6HFQy9_rY58

4. B. B. King: https://youtu.be/SgXSomPE_FY

5. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: https://youtu.be/gfLVVHxk4IM

6. Louis Armstrong: https://youtu.be/Y5O-oIUXIjo

7. Sister Rosetta Tharpe: https://youtu.be/Y9a49oFalZE

8. Ray Charles: https://youtu.be/fCm9RUV03dc

9. Mahalia Jackson: https://youtu.be/GEOaIfHlSsw

10. Sidney Bechet: https://youtu.be/GCE5IpVOiQU

11. Robert Johnson: https://www.robertjohnsonbluesfoundation.org/biography/

12. Bessie Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT4z847-hyc

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