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Bobby Lyle

American musician

1

Jeanne Arland Peterson

American musician and pianist

2

Christian McBride

American musician

3

The Bad Plus

Jazz trio

4

Ahmad Jamal

American jazz pianist

5

Ab Baars

Dutch tenor saxophonoist and clarinetist

6

Pim Jacobs

Dutch musician

7

Butch Warren

American musician

8

Craig Taborn

American musician

9

Michel Camilo

Dominican Grammy-award winning pianist and composer (born 1954)

10

Billy Taylor

American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator

11

Tommy Flanagan

American jazz pianist

12

Johnny Maddox

American musician

13

Chick Corea

American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer

14

Sonny Rollins

American jazz saxophonist and composer

15

Andrzej Trzaskowski

Polish composer and jazz musician

16

Wynton Kelly

American jazz pianist

17

Ray Brown

American jazz double bassist and cellist

18

Oscar Peterson

Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer

19

Ray Bryant

American pianist

20

Mary Osborne

American musician

21

John Hicks

American jazz pianist and composer

22

Bill Evans

American jazz pianist

23

David Hazeltine

American musician

24

Jaki Byard

American musician

25

Hank Jones

American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010)

26

Jai Johanny Johanson

American musician

27

Geoffrey Keezer

American musician

28

Brad Mehldau

American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger

29

Dave Holland

British musician

30

Elvin Jones

American jazz drummer

31

Alexis Korner

British blues musician and radio broadcaster

32

Derek Smith

British musician

33

Buddy Rich

American jazz drummer and bandleader

34

Chester Thompson

American drummer

35

Semisonic

band

36

Charles Stepney

American record producer

37

Jeff Ballard

American drummer

38

Mike Westbrook

English pianist

39

Greg Spero

American musician

40

Don Thompson

Canadian musician

41

Mark Naftalin

American blues keyboardist, composer, and record producer

42

Johnnie Johnson

American musician

43

Mike Longo

American musician

44

John Scofield

American jazz guitarist and composer

45

Phineas Newborn Jr.

American pianist

46

Charles Thompson

American pianist

47

Simon Nabatov

Russian musician

48

Wild Bill Davis

American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger

49

Dave Liebman

American jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist

50

Charlie Haden

American jazz double bassist

51

Avishai Cohen

Israeli jazz bassist, composer, singer and arranger

52

Keith Tippett

British pianist

53

Dodo Marmarosa

American musician

54

Mulgrew Miller

American pianist

55

Stéphane Grappelli

French jazz violinist

56

Paul Motian

American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer

57

Alex Chilton

American songwriter, guitarist, singer & producer

58

Cory Wong

American guitarist and songwriter

59

Marian McPartland

British pianist, composer, writer and radio host

60

Butch Ballard

American jazz drummer

61

Bill Cunliffe

American musician

62

Abdullah Ibrahim

South African pianist and composer

63

Art Tatum

American jazz pianist

64

Jon Hiseman

English drummer and sound engineer

65

Elmo Hope

American musician

66

John Dankworth

British musician (1927-2010)

67

Kid Ory

American jazz trombonist

68

Freddie Redd

American pianist

69

Butch Trucks

American musician

70

Cecil Taylor

American jazz pianist and poet

71

Paul Bley

Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist