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Bob French
American jazz drummer
1
Danny Barker
American jazz musician
2
Paul Barbarin
American musician
3
John Boudreaux Jr.
New Orleans jazz musician
4
David Lee
American jazz drummer
5
Irving Banister
American R&B musician
6
Blanche Thomas
American musician
7
Louis Barbarin
American jazz drummer
8
Isidore Barbarin
American jazz cornet
9
Earl Palmer
American drummer
10
Pete Fountain
American clarinetist (1930-2016)
11
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
American musical group; New Orleans, Louisiana, brass band
12
Baby Dodds
American musician
13
Chris Tyle
American musician
14
Jimmie Noone
American musician
15
Young Tuxedo Brass Band
American brass band
16
Placide Adams
American jazz musician
17
George Porter
American musician
18
Ziggy Modeliste
American musician
19
Frank Fields
American musician
20
Jerry Jumonville
American saxophonist
21
Raymond Burke
American jazz musician
22
Albert Burbank
American jazz clarinetist
23
Elvin Jones
American jazz drummer
24
Sam Butera
American musician
25
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
26
Freddie Keppard
American jazz musician
27
Panama Francis
American musician
28
Ray Bauduc
American musician
29
Louis Cottrell, Sr.
American musician
30
Harold Battiste
American music composer, arranger, performer, and teacher
31
Buddy Rich
American jazz drummer and bandleader
32
King Oliver
American jazz cornet player and bandleader
33
George Lewis
American musician
34
Al Jackson Jr.
American musician and record producer
35
Stanton Moore
Jazz-Musician
36
Alvin Tyler
American R&B and neo-bop jazz saxophonist and arranger
37
Max Weinberg
American drummer
38
Charles Neville
American musician
39
Milford Graves
American jazz drummer and percussionist
40
Shelly Manne
American jazz drummer
41
Albert Ayler
American jazz saxophonist
42
Tommy Ladnier
Jazz cornetist/trumpeter
43
Chester Thompson
American drummer
44
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
45
John Densmore
American drummer and songwriter
46
Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
47
Ginger Baker
English rock drummer
48
Billy Cobham
American jazz drummer
49
Charlie Watts
British drummer of The Rolling Stones
50
Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
51
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
52
Kid Ory
American jazz trombonist
53
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
