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Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
1
Albert Heath
American drummer
2
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
3
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
4
David Williams
American jazz musician
5
Ben Riley
American drummer
6
Louis Hayes
American drummer
7
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
8
Junior Cook
American saxophonist
9
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
10
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
11
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
12
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
13
Sonny Red
American musician
14
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
15
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
16
Charlie Rouse
American musician
17
Walter Booker
American jazz double-bassist
18
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
19
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
20
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
21
Larry Gales
American musician
22
Harold Land
American musician
23
Al Foster
American musician
24
Bob Berg
American musician
25
Wilbur Ware
American musician
26
Houston Person
American saxophonist
27
Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
28
Percy Heath
American musician
29
Eddie Henderson
American musician
30
Ben Tucker
American double-bassist
31
Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
32
Kirk Lightsey
American musician
33
Lex Humphries
American drummer
34
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
35
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
36
Eddie Gladden
American musician
37
George Coleman
American musician
38
Reggie Johnson
American musician
39
Roy Brooks
American drummer
40
Jeff "Tain" Watts
American musician
41
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
42
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
43
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
44
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
45
George Mraz
Czech jazz bassist
46
Walter Perkins
American drummer
47
Billy Drummond
American musician
48
Sonny Clark
American musician
49
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
50
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
51
George Andrew Cables
American jazz pianist
52
Charles McPherson
American jazz alto saxophonist
53
George Duvivier
American musician
54
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
55
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
56
Vincent Herring
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
57
Sonny Criss
American jazz musician
58
Javon Jackson
American musician
59
Herbie Lewis
American musician
60
Johnny Griffin
American musician
61
Oscar Brashear
American trumpeter
62
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
63
Kenny Washington
American musician
64
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
65
Frankie Dunlop
American jazz drummer
66
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
67
Cecil McBee
American bassist
68
Alan Dawson
American musician
69
Duke Jordan
American musician
70
Jimmy Raney
American musician
71
Mark Soskin
Jazz pianist
72
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
73
Bill Hardman
American musician
74
Vernel Fournier
American musician
75
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
76
Walter Davis
American pianist
77
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
78
John Ore
American musician
79
Norman Simmons
pianist and arranger
80
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
81
Bennie Green
American musician
