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Don Moye
American percussionist
1
Arthur Blythe
American musician
2
Cameron Brown
American musician
3
Don Pullen
American jazz pianist and organist
4
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
5
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
6
Beaver Harris
American musician
7
Steve McCall
American jazz drummer
8
Bob Stewart
American musician
9
Warren Smith
American musician
10
Ronnie Burrage
American musician
11
Bubba Brooks
American musician
12
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
13
Walter Booker
American jazz double-bassist
14
John Purcell
American jazz saxophonist
15
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
16
Roy Brooks
American drummer
17
George Adams
musician
18
Jack Walrath
Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader
19
Michael Carvin
American musician
20
Panama Francis
American musician
21
Victor Lewis
American jazz drummer
22
Albert Heath
American drummer
23
George Andrew Cables
American jazz pianist
24
Abdul Wadud
musician
25
James Newton
American flautist, composer, and conductor
26
Dave Burrell
American musician
27
James Blood Ulmer
American jazz and blues guitarist and singer
28
Kirk Lightsey
American musician
29
Charles McPherson
American jazz alto saxophonist
30
Hamiet Bluiett
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer
31
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
32
John Abercrombie
American jazz guitarist
33
Tommy Campbell
American drummer
34
John Guerin
American drummer
35
Dewey Redman
American saxophonist
36
Cecil McBee
American bassist
37
Marvin Smith
American musician
38
Monnette Sudler
American musician
39
Lewis Nash
American drummer
40
Arthur Doyle
American musician
41
Victor Feldman
English recording artist; jazz musician, vibraphonist
42
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
43
Amina Claudine Myers
American musician
44
Chuck Domanico
American musician
45
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
46
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
47
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
48
Oscar Brashear
American trumpeter
49
Stanley Cowell
American musician
50
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
51
Dizzy Reece
Jamaican trumpeter
52
Paul Murphy
American musician
53
Jack DeJohnette
American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer
54
Al Foster
American musician
55
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
56
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
57
Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
58
Steve Lacy
American jazz musician; saxophonist, composer
59
Vernel Fournier
American musician
60
Butch Miles
American jazz drummer
61
Lester Bowie
American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)
62
Bill Mays
American pianist
63
Shadow Wilson
American jazz drummer (1919-1959)
64
Horace Tapscott
American musician
65
Sonny Fortune
American saxophonist
66
Dennis Budimir
American musician
67
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
68
Billy Cobham
American jazz drummer
69
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
70
Charles Tyler
American musician
71
Woody Shaw
American musician
72
Charnett Moffett
American musician
73
Sunny Murray
American drummer
74
Dannie Richmond
American drummer
75
Julian Priester
American jazz trombonist
76
J. C. Heard
American musician
77
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
78
Steve Reid
American musician
79
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
80
Bobby Previte
American drummer
81
Sue Evans
American musician
82
Carmen McRae
American jazz musician and actress
