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The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
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Jymie Merritt
American bassist
2
Bill Hardman
American musician
3
Bobby Timmons
American pianist
4
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
5
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
6
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
7
Jon Hendricks
American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian
8
Lee Morgan
American trumpeter
9
Benny Golson
American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger (born 1929)
10
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
11
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
12
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
13
Woody Shaw
American musician
14
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
15
Johnny Griffin
American musician
16
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
17
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
18
Horace Silver
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
19
Branford Marsalis
American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1960)
20
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
21
Tadd Dameron
American pianist
22
Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
23
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
24
Bobby Watson
composer
25
Ralph Peterson, Jr.
American jazz drummer
26
Walter Davis
American pianist
27
Carl Allen
American jazz drummer
28
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
29
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
30
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
31
Geoffrey Keezer
American musician
32
Dennis Irwin
American jazz musician
33
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
34
Victor Lewis
American jazz drummer
35
Billy Eckstine
American musician
36
Ray Bryant
American pianist
37
Hank Mobley
American saxophonist
38
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
39
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
40
Tony Allen
Drummer, composer, songwriter
41
Jackie McLean
American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader
42
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
43
Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer
44
Brian Blade
American jazz musician
45
Melba Liston
American jazz trombonist, musical arranger, and composer
46
Kenny Garrett
American musician
47
Wallace Roney
American musician
48
Gigi Gryce
American recording artist; jazz saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator
