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Albert Ayler
American jazz saxophonist
1
Donald Ayler
American musician
2
Sunny Murray
American drummer
3
Frank Wright
American jazz musician
4
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
5
Gato Barbieri
Argentine jazz musician
6
Johnny Hodges
American alto saxophonist
7
John Tchicai
Danish free jazz saxophonist
8
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
9
Sirone
American musician
10
Dave Burrell
American musician
11
Bobby Few
American musician
12
Henry Grimes
American musician
13
Lewis Worrell
American musician
14
Rashied Ali
American jazz musician
15
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
16
Dewey Johnson
American jazzman
17
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
18
Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
19
Jimmy Woode
American bassist
20
Marion Brown
American saxophonist
21
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
22
Sam Woodyard
American jazz drummer
23
Alice Coltrane
American jazz musician
24
Lawrence Brown
jazz trombonist
25
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
26
Jimmy Hamilton
American jazz musician
27
Charles Tyler
American musician
28
Frank Lowe
American jazz saxophonist
29
Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
30
Seldon Powell
American musician
31
Roswell Rudd
American trombonist
32
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
33
Johnny Griffin
American musician
34
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
35
Johnny Hartman
Jazz Singer
36
Burton Greene
American musician
37
Milford Graves
American jazz drummer and percussionist
38
J. C. Heard
American musician
39
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
40
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
41
Eric Dolphy
American jazz musician
42
Patty Waters
American jazz musician
43
Sonny Criss
American jazz musician
44
Gary Peacock
American double-bassist
45
Cecil McBee
American bassist
46
Byard Lancaster
American saxophonist
47
Noah Howard
American musician
48
Sonny Simmons
American saxophonist
49
George Duvivier
American musician
50
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
51
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
52
Lucky Thompson
American saxophonist
53
James Blood Ulmer
American jazz and blues guitarist and singer
54
Leon Thomas
American singer
55
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
56
Ronnie Boykins
American musician
57
Danny Bank
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist
58
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
59
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
60
Russell Procope
American musician
61
Muhammad Ali
free jazz drummer
62
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
63
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
64
Bill Berry
American musician
65
Alan Silva
American musician
