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Bud Powell
American pianist and composer
1
Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
2
John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
3
Lennie Tristano
American jazz pianist and composer
4
Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
5
Dodo Marmarosa
American musician
6
Earl Hines
American jazz pianist
7
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
8
Jaki Byard
American musician
9
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
10
Hank Jones
American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010)
11
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
12
Horace Silver
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
13
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
14
Ran Blake
American musician
15
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
16
Walter Page
American jazz musician
17
Charlie Parker
American jazz saxophonist and composer
18
Ray Bryant
American pianist
19
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
20
Red Garland
American modern jazz pianist (1923-1984)
21
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
22
Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
23
Bill Evans
American jazz pianist
24
Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist
25
Eddie Costa
American jazz musician; pianist and vibraphonist
26
Muhal Richard Abrams
American musician
27
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
28
Sammy Price
American pianist
29
Brad Mehldau
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
30
Andrew Hill
American jazz pianist and composer
31
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, and pianist
32
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
33
Phineas Newborn Jr.
American pianist
34
McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
35
Harold Mabern
American pianist
36
Charlie Christian
American swing and jazz guitarist
37
George Russell
American pianist and composer
38
James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
39
Martin Taylor
British guitarist
40
Dorothy Donegan
American jazz pianist
41
J. C. Heard
American musician
42
Barney Kessel
American jazz guitarist
43
Junior Mance
American musician
44
Stanley Cowell
American musician
45
Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
46
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
47
Erroll Garner
American jazz pianist and composer
48
Billy Strayhorn
American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger
49
Elmo Hope
American musician
50
J. J. Johnson
American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924-2001)
51
Craig Taborn
American musician
52
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
53
Lou Stein
American musician
54
Norman Granz
American jazz musician and producer
55
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
56
Machito
Latin jazz musician
57
Albert Ammons
American jazz pianist, recording artist
58
Adam Makowicz
Polish-Canadian musician
59
Carla Bley
American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader
