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Jenny Scheinman
American jazz violinist and composer
1
Myra Melford
Jazz pianist and composer
2
Brandi Carlile
American alternative country and folk rock singer-songwriter
3
Ben Goldberg
American clarinet player and composer
4
Michael Blake
Canadian saxophonist
5
Torres
singer songwriter, born 1991
6
Morphine
American alternative rock band
7
Pieta Brown
American musician
8
Buddy Deppenschmidt
American jazz drummer
9
The Highwomen
American country supergroup
10
Matt Chamberlain
musician
11
Sara Lee
American musician
12
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
13
Steve Wilson
American jazz musician
14
Ben Perowsky
American drummer
15
Mary Halvorson
US avant-garde jazz guitarist
16
Marian McPartland
British pianist, composer, writer and radio host
17
Tanya Tucker
American country music singer
18
Renee Rosnes
Canadian pianist
19
Nicole Mitchell
American jazz flutist
20
Terri Lyne Carrington
American jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur
21
Dena DeRose
Jazz pianist and singer, educator
22
Marilyn Crispell
American pianist
23
Anita O'Day
American jazz singer
24
Lonnie Smith
American jazz musician
25
Toshi Reagon
American singer
26
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
27
Yelena Eckemoff
Pianist and composer
28
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
29
Louis Hayes
American drummer
30
Ayumi Tanaka
jazz musician
31
Ani Di Franco
American singer-songwriter
32
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
33
Zoe Rahman
British musician
34
Hiromi Uehara
Japanese-born jazz composer and pianist (1979-)
35
Fredrik Ljungkvist
Swedish jazz musician
36
Hamid Drake
American musician
37
Lonnie Liston Smith
American pianist
38
Lol Coxhill
English free improvising saxophonist and raconteur (1932-2012)
39
William Hooker
American musician
40
Melissa Aldana
Chilean saxophonist
41
Ronnie Burrage
American musician
42
Beryl Bryden
English jazz singer
43
Lucia Cifarelli
Industrial metal vocalist; performed with KMFDM
44
Allison Crowe
Canadian singer, songwriter and musician
45
Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen
Norwegian guitarist
46
Tomeka Reid
American jazz musician
47
Vienna Teng
Taiwanese-American pianist and singer-songwriter based in Detroit
48
Gary Peacock
American double-bassist
49
Cindy Blackman
American musician
50
Lori McKenna
American musician
51
Bobby Lyle
American musician
52
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
53
Keith Tippett
British pianist
54
Mark Sandman
Indie-rock musician, lead singer for band Morphine
55
Sathima Bea Benjamin
South African jazz singer
56
Regina Carter
American musician
57
Norma Winstone
English jazz singer
58
Laila Biali
Canadian musician
59
Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
