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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
