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Bubba Brooks
American musician
1
Michael Philip Mossman
American musician
2
Ernie Freeman
American musician
3
Pinetop Perkins
American blues pianist
4
Carrie Smith
American singer
5
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
6
Porter Grainger
American musician
7
Bill Henderson
jazz vocalist and actor (1926-2016)
8
Jimmy Smith
American jazz musician
9
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
10
Phineas Newborn Jr.
American pianist
11
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
12
T-Bone Walker
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
13
Jimmy Scott
American jazz singer
14
Roland Hanna
American pianist
15
Winard Harper
Jazz drummer
16
Larry Young
American jazz musician
17
Jimmy McGriff
American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader (1936-2008)
18
Russell Malone
jazz guitarist
19
Monty Alexander
Jamaican pianist
20
Ramsey Lewis
American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality
21
Roy Hargrove
American jazz trumpeter
22
Robert Lockwood Jr.
American Delta blues guitarist
23
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
24
Sammy Price
American pianist
25
Albert Ammons
American jazz pianist, recording artist
26
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
27
Calvin Newborn
American guitarist
28
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
29
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
30
Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
31
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
32
Paul Chambers
American musician
33
Ray Bryant
American pianist
34
Pinetop Smith
American boogie-woogie style blues pianist
35
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
36
Jimmy Owens
jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator
37
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
38
Johnnie Johnson
American musician
39
Jay McShann
American blues, jazz, and swing bandleader, pianist and singer
40
Harold Mabern
American pianist
41
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
42
Walter Davis
African American blues singer and pianist
43
Budd Johnson
American musician
44
Doug Raney
American musician
45
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
46
Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
47
Jimmy Bennington
American musician
48
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
49
Grover Washington, Jr.
American recording artist, jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist (1943-1999)
50
John Patton
American organist
51
Gene Ludwig
American musician
52
Otis Spann
American Chicago blues pianist
53
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
54
Carl Perkins
American jazz pianist
55
Jimmy Blythe
American jazz and boogie-woogie pianist
56
Tina Brooks
American musician
57
Alexis Korner
British blues musician and radio broadcaster
58
Andrew Hill
American jazz pianist and composer
59
Henry Townsend
American musician
60
Freddie King
American blues guitarist and singer
61
Joe Liggins
American R&B, jazz and blues pianist
62
Gary Husband
British musician
63
George Coleman
American musician
64
Henry Gray
African-American blues piano player and singer
65
Eddie Harris
American jazz musician, saxophonist
66
Red Mitchell
American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet
67
Christian Jacob
French jazz pianist
68
Ellis Marsalis Jr.
American pianist
