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Jeff Johnson
bass player
1
Wayne Horvitz
American musician
2
T. S. Monk
American musician
3
Buster Williams
American musician
4
Pearl Django
American gypsy jazz band
5
Gwilym Simcock
British musician
6
Roscoe Mitchell
American jazz musician
7
Kendrick Scott
American musician
8
John Serry Jr.
American pianist and composer; son of John Serry, Sr.
9
Bill Cunliffe
American musician
10
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
11
John Scofield
American jazz guitarist and composer
12
Myra Melford
Jazz pianist and composer
13
Ted Rosenthal
American musician
14
Paul Wertico
American drummer
15
Michael Stephans
American writer, poet and jazz musician
16
Fred Hersch
American musician
17
Taylor Ho Bynum
American musician
18
Francisco Mela
Cuban percussionist
19
Robert Glasper
American jazz pianist, composer and record producer
20
Bill Ramsay
American jazz saxophonist & bandleader
21
Jessica Williams
American jazz pianist
22
Vijay Iyer
American jazz musician
23
Ben Perowsky
American drummer
24
John Taylor
British jazz pianist
25
Fred Lonberg-Holm
American musician
26
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
27
John McLaughlin
English guitarist, bandleader, and composer; founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
28
Herbie Hancock
American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
29
Marian McPartland
British pianist, composer, writer and radio host
30
Geoffrey Keezer
American musician
31
Dave Douglas
American jazz trumpeter
32
Bill Frisell
American musician
33
Albert Beger
saxophonist
34
Hamid Drake
American musician
35
Laurence Hobgood
American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, producer, lyricist
36
Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
37
Randy Weston
American jazz pianist
38
Bill Evans
American jazz pianist
39
Guillermo E. Brown
musician
40
Rent Romus
American musician
41
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
42
Michael Bisio
American jazz musician
43
Roxy Coss
American jazz saxophonist and composer
44
John Lindberg
American musician
45
Jim Hall
American jazz guitarist, composer
