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Melvin Sparks
American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist
1
Houston Person
American saxophonist
2
Carlos Garnett
American musician
3
Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones
jazz musician
4
Jimmy Ponder
American guitarist
5
Eric Alexander
American saxophonist
6
Richard Holmes
American organist
7
Bobby Durham
American musician
8
Walter Perkins
American drummer
9
Don Patterson
American jazz organist
10
Rusty Bryant
American musician
11
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
12
George Coleman
American musician
13
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
14
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
15
Idris Muhammad
American drummer
16
Sonny Phillips
American musician
17
Junior Cook
American saxophonist
18
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
19
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
20
Harold Vick
American musician
21
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
22
Jim Rotondi
American musician
23
Richard Wyands
hard bop pianist
24
Seldon Powell
American musician
25
Bill Hardman
American musician
26
Larry Young
American jazz musician
27
Thornel Schwartz
American jazz guitarist
28
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
29
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
30
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
31
Bob deVos
American musician
32
George Duvivier
American musician
33
Joe Chambers
American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer
34
Joe Newman
American musician
35
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
36
Roy Brooks
American drummer
37
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
38
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
39
Eddie Henderson
American musician
40
Louis Hayes
American drummer
41
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
42
Billy Harper
American musician
43
Ray Mantilla
American jazz drummer
44
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
45
Norman Simmons
pianist and arranger
46
John Patton
American organist
47
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
48
Billy Butler
American musician
49
Woody Shaw
American musician
50
Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
51
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
52
Wilton Felder
American musician
53
Jon Faddis
Jazz trumpet player
54
Joe Sample
American pianist
55
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
56
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
57
Albert Heath
American drummer
58
Jerry Dodgion
American musician
59
Bobby Broom
American musician
60
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
61
Grover Washington, Jr.
American recording artist, jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist (1943-1999)
62
Roland Hanna
American pianist
63
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
64
Alan Dawson
American musician
65
Leroy Williams
American jazz drummer
66
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
67
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
68
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
69
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
70
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
71
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
72
Gary Bartz
American musician
73
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
74
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
75
James Moody
American jazz musician
76
Sonny Criss
American jazz musician
77
Johnny Coles
American trumpeter
78
Oscar Brashear
American trumpeter
79
Cecil Bridgewater
American jazz trumpeter
80
Major Holley
American jazz upright bassist
