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Wow, everyone's stumped me...The people I'd mention already have...With a few exceptions...
Clifford Brown (The man who showed the world that you can play jazz and not be a flakey and cranky drug addict.)
Hank Williams,Sr. (For a man who's lack of educational skills made even endorsing his own royalty checks near impossible, he got as much mileage out of the English language as Ernest Hemmingway.)
Buddy Holly (His songs may seem pretty corn ball to some,but, he was starting to grow more as an artist as his career kept going post-Crickets...He very well could've ended up doing something similar to "Pet Sounds" if he'd lived...And Brian Wilson would've had more than Phil Spector to match his skills to.)
D. Boon (Absolutely tragic)
Frank Zappa (There's so much more he could've done)
Duke Ellington (He had an amazing 3+ decade run but he he never ran out of fresh ideas.)
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