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Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
1
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
2
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
3
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
4
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
5
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
6
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
7
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
8
Gigi Gryce
American recording artist; jazz saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator
9
Charlie Rouse
American musician
10
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
11
Don Butterfield
American musician
12
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
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Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
14
George Duvivier
American musician
15
Pierre Michelot
French jazz double bassist
16
Walter Davis
American pianist
17
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
18
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
19
Joe Benjamin
American musician
20
Sonny Clark
American musician
21
Percy Heath
American musician
22
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
23
Johnny Griffin
American musician
24
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
25
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
26
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
27
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
28
Leroy Vinnegar
American bassist
29
Addison Farmer
American musician
30
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
31
Mel Lewis
American musician
32
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
33
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
34
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
35
Jimmy Gourley
American jazz guitarist
36
Louis Hayes
American drummer
37
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
38
Seldon Powell
American musician
39
Wade Legge
Jazz pianist and bassist
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James Buffington
American musician
41
Benny Powell
American jazz trombonist
42
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
43
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
44
Shadow Wilson
American jazz drummer (1919-1959)
45
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
46
Lennie McBrowne
American musician
47
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
48
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
49
Walter Bishop Jr.
American jazz pianist, recording artist
50
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
51
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
52
Tommy Potter
American musician
53
Leonard Gaskin
American musician
54
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
55
Jamil Nasser
American bassist
56
John Ore
American musician
57
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
58
Henry Coker
American musician
59
Curley Russell
American jazz musician
60
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
61
Wilbur Ware
American musician
62
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
63
Ben Tucker
American double-bassist
64
Duke Jordan
American musician
65
Gene Ramey
American musician
66
Paul Chambers
American musician
67
Albert Heath
American drummer
68
Ben Riley
American drummer
69
Richard Wyands
hard bop pianist
70
Walter Perkins
American drummer
71
Milt Jackson
American musician
72
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
73
Specs Wright
American jazz drummer
74
Red Garland
American modern jazz pianist (1923-1984)
75
Dave Bailey
American drummer
76
Joe Newman
American musician
77
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
78
Les Spann
American guitarist
79
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
80
Keter Betts
American jazz musician
81
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
82
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
83
Budd Johnson
American musician
