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Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
1
Joe Newman
American musician
2
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
3
George Duvivier
American musician
4
Benny Powell
American jazz trombonist
5
Charlie Fowlkes
American musician
6
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
7
Eddie Jones
American musician
8
Freddie Green
American jazz guitarist
9
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
10
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
11
Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
12
Gus Johnson
American musician
13
Budd Johnson
American musician
14
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
15
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
16
Snooky Young
American musician
17
Sonny Payne
American jazz drummer
18
Joe Williams
American jazz singer
19
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
20
Eddie Bert
American musician
21
Henry Coker
American musician
22
Dennis Mackrel
jazz musician
23
Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
24
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
25
Ernie Wilkins
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and music arranger
26
Joe Wilder
American trumpeter
27
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
28
Bill Hughes
jazz musician
29
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
30
Åke Persson
Swedish musician
31
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
32
Willie Cook
American musician
33
Quentin Jackson
American musician
34
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
35
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
36
Jimmie Smith
American jazz drummer
37
James Moody
American jazz musician
38
Marshal Royal
American musician
39
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
40
Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
41
Art Davis
American double-bassist
42
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
43
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
44
A. K. Salim
American musician
45
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
46
Herb Ellis
American jazz guitarist
47
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
48
Bobby Durham
American musician
49
Bennie Green
American musician
50
Milt Jackson
American musician
51
Matthew Gee
American musician
52
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
53
Jimmy Nottingham
American musician
54
Benny Bailey
American musician
55
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
56
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
57
Speedy Jones
American drummer
58
Ed Shaughnessy
American jazz drummer
59
Arturo Sandoval
Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer
60
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
61
Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
62
Bob Wilber
jazz clarinetist, composer and saxophonist from United States
63
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
64
Jake Hanna
American drummer
65
Mundell Lowe
American jazz guitarist (1922-2017)
66
Jerry Dodgion
American musician
67
Jon Hendricks
American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian
68
Ike Isaacs
American jazz bassist
69
Sam Woodyard
American jazz drummer
70
J. C. Heard
American musician
71
Leonard Gaskin
American musician
72
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
73
Monty Alexander
Jamaican pianist
74
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
75
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
76
Buddy Tate
American musician
77
Thornel Schwartz
American jazz guitarist
78
Calvin Newborn
American guitarist
79
James Buffington
American musician
80
Booty Wood
American jazz musician
81
Tommy Potter
American musician
82
Jimmy Rushing
American blues shouter and swing jazz singer
83
Jimmy Crawford
American musician (1910-1980)
84
Walter Bishop Jr.
American jazz pianist, recording artist
85
Sonny Cohn
American musician
86
Russell Procope
American musician
87
Seldon Powell
American musician
