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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
