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Sonny Clark
American musician
1
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
2
Tommy Turrentine
American swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer
3
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
4
Wilbur Ware
American musician
5
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
6
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
7
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
8
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
9
Ike Quebec
American jazz tenor saxophonist
10
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
11
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
12
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
13
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
14
Willie Jones
American drummer and music educator
15
Joe Henderson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
16
Charlie Rouse
American musician
17
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
18
Buster Williams
American musician
19
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
20
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
21
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
22
George Duvivier
American musician
23
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
24
Louis Hayes
American drummer
25
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
26
Larry Gales
American musician
27
Johnny Griffin
American musician
28
Percy Heath
American musician
29
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
30
Leroy Vinnegar
American bassist
31
George Tucker
American musician
32
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
33
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
34
Teddy Smith
American bassist
35
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
36
Allan Botschinsky
Danish musician
37
J. C. Moses
American musician
38
Lucky Thompson
American saxophonist
39
Milt Jackson
American musician
40
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
41
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
42
Bobby Timmons
American pianist
43
Andrew Hill
American jazz pianist and composer
44
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
45
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
46
Larry Young
American jazz musician
47
Walter Bishop Jr.
American jazz pianist, recording artist
48
Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
49
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
50
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
51
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
52
James Spaulding
American saxophonist
53
Hank Mobley
American saxophonist
54
David Amram
American musician
55
Grant Green
American jazz guitarist and composer
56
Albert Heath
American drummer
57
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
58
Gene Ramey
American musician
59
Major Holley
American jazz upright bassist
60
Shadow Wilson
American jazz drummer (1919-1959)
61
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
62
Ben Riley
American drummer
63
Kenny Drew, Jr.
American pianist
64
Ernie Henry
American musician
65
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
