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Edward Simon
Venezuelan pianist
1
Steven Richman
American conductor
2
Alex Cline
American musician
3
Ernie Hammes
jazz musician
4
Lester Bowie
American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)
5
William Russo
American musician
6
Kadim Al Sahir
Iraqi singer, composer, and poet
7
Dave Holland
British musician
8
Rob Mazurek
American musician
9
Julian Priester
American jazz trombonist
10
Jimmy Maxwell
American musician
11
Robert Irving III
American pianist and composer
12
Roscoe Mitchell
American jazz musician
13
Joe Wilder
American trumpeter
14
Susie Ibarra
American musician
15
Kayhan Kalhor
Iranian musician
16
Woody Shaw
American musician
17
Jon Faddis
Jazz trumpet player
18
Don Moye
American percussionist
19
Luis Bonilla
American musician
20
Michael Philip Mossman
American musician
21
Miguel Zenón
Puerto Rican alto saxophonist
22
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
23
Vijay Iyer
American jazz musician
24
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
25
Roy Hargrove
American jazz trumpeter
26
Larry Gray
American musician
27
Roy Campbell, Jr.
American trumpeter (1952-2014)
28
Myra Melford
Jazz pianist and composer
29
Steve Coleman
American saxophonist
30
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
31
Gerald Wilson
American trumpetist (1918-2014)
32
Ibrahim Maalouf
French-Lebanese trumpeter
33
Dave Douglas
American jazz trumpeter
34
Arturo Sandoval
Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer
35
Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
36
Mark Dresser
American musician
37
Mark-Anthony Turnage
English composer
38
Paquito D'Rivera
Cuban musician
39
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
40
Tommy Smith
Scottish saxophone player
41
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
42
Phil Cohran
American trumpeter
43
Danilo Pérez
Panamanian pianist and composer
