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• Fats Navarro - Fats Navarro was the prime challenger to Dizzy Gillespie's crown as bebop's finest brassman.
• Fats Waller - This big character and multi-talented entertainer was a pianist, composer and comedian who enjoyed great success with songs such as ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ and ‘Squeeze...
• Flanagan & Allen - Run, Rabbit, Run - a song forever associated with its creators, Flanagan & Allen. The number was featured in the George Black revue 'The Little Dog Laughed' which opened at the London Palladium...
• Fletcher Henderson - Fletcher Henderson, college-educated and distinguished, is best remembered for his part in the Benny Goodman success story. It was Henderson's arrangements which helped make the Goodman band the best...
• Flip Phillips - Joseph ‘Flip’ Phillips earned considerable notoriety with his grandstanding antics at ‘Jazz At The Philharmonic’ concerts.
• Florence Desmond -  Impressionist and singer Florence Desmond gets a few double entendres in to The Deepest Shelter In Town, a somewhat risqué song for 1940.
• Flotsam & Jetsam - Flotsam & Jetsam - B C Hilliam and Australian born Malcolm McEachern - were a unique double act, composer Hilliam playing piano and singing in a high, gentle voice; and McEachern, possessed of...
• Frances Day - Sung by Frances Day (1907-1984), How Do You Do, Mr Right? comes from the musical 'The Fleet's Lit Up' which enjoyed a run of 199 performances at the London Hippodrome, closing in February 1939.
• Frances Langford - Frances Langford became best known for her four year wartime stint on Bob Hope's 'Pepsodent Show' and was chosen by the American GIs as the 'Number One Girl Of World War Two'.
• Frank Crumit - Frank Crumit had a soft, whimsical voice, and sang gently comic songs about every subject under the sun, from golf, horse riding and poker, to prunes, an insurance man and bootlegging - the list is long...
• Frank Sinatra - Perhaps the most famous American jazz artist of all time Ol’ Blue Eyes began his illustrious career as a singer during the swing era and ended up an Oscar winning actor.
• Frankie Trumbauer - Frankie Trumbauer (1901-56), was a cool-sounding alto-saxophonist, who played with Bix Beiderbecke and Paul Whiteman. Trumbauer was a test pilot during World War Two.
• Fred Astaire - This talented singer and actor whose career spanned an incredible 76 years is best known for his incredible dancing talent and many collaborations with Ginger Rogers.
• Freddie Slack - Freddie Slack was a boogie specialist and it’s his romping piano which opens the very lively Furlough Fling on 'G.I. Jive'.
• Freddy Gardner - British musician Freddy Gardner played the smoothest, most limpid saxophone of all. Although he participated in a number of distinguished jazz records, another claim to fame is as a principal soloist...