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Dave Burrell

American musician

1

Sunny Murray

American drummer

2

Bernard Vitet

French trumpeter

3

Noah Howard

American musician

4

Frank Wright

American jazz musician

5

Denis Colin

French musician

6

Clifford Thornton

American musician

7

Don Cherry

American jazz trumpeter

8

Linda Sharrock

American singer

9

Leroy Jenkins

composer and Avant-garde Jazz violinist and violist

10

Sirone

American musician

11

Andrew Cyrille

American avant-garde jazz drummer

12

Archie Shepp

American jazz musician

13

Bobby Few

American musician

14

Beaver Harris

American musician

15

Muhammad Ali

free jazz drummer

16

Steve Swell

American musician

17

Marion Brown

American saxophonist

18

Michel Portal

French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist

19

Robin Kenyatta

American jazz alto saxophonist

20

Mike Zwerin

American jazz musician

21

Alan Shorter

American musician

22

Reggie Johnson

American musician

23

Steve Lacy

American jazz musician; saxophonist, composer

24

Bill Dixon

American musician

25

Jimmy Lyons

American jazz saxophonist

26

Burton Greene

American musician

27

Barry Altschul

American drummer

28

Roy Campbell, Jr.

American trumpeter (1952-2014)

29

Lester Bowie

American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)

30

Albert Ayler

American jazz saxophonist

31

Byard Lancaster

American saxophonist

32

Giuseppi Logan

American musician

33

Jef Gilson

French musician

34

Philly Joe Jones

American jazz drummer

35

Ronnie Boykins

American musician

36

Perry Robinson

American musician

37

Wadada Leo Smith

American jazz trumpeter and composer

38

Trevor Watts

English jazz musician

39

Karl Berger

German jazz vibraphonist, pianist and composer

40

John Stevens

English drummer

41

Sonny Simmons

American saxophonist

42

Kidd Jordan

American saxophonist

43

Bobby Hutcherson

American jazz vibraphone and marimba player

44

Art Baron

American musician

45

Pharoah Sanders

American jazz saxophonist

46

Un Drame Musical Instantané

47

Arthur Doyle

American musician

48

Jean-Jacques Birgé

avant-garde composer, film director, sound designer, multimedia author, record producer, synthesizer player and multi-instrumentalist

49

Pierre Michelot

French jazz double bassist

50

Andy Bey

American musician

51

Carlos Ward

American musician

52

Snooky Young

American musician

53

Didier Malherbe

French saxophonist

54

Bob Magnusson

American musician

55

Larry Gray

American musician

56

Hamid Drake

American musician

57

Tim Hagans

American musician

58

Johnny Dyani

South African jazz double bassist

59

Kenny Wheeler

Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player

60

Marilyn Crispell

American pianist

61

William Parker

American jazz musician

62

Curtis Fowlkes

American musician

63

Milford Graves

American jazz drummer and percussionist