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The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
1
James Williams
American jazz pianist
2
Bobby Watson
composer
3
Dennis Irwin
American jazz musician
4
Branford Marsalis
American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1960)
5
Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
6
Bill Pierce
American musician
7
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
8
Carl Allen
American jazz drummer
9
Valery Ponomarev
American musician
10
Kenny Kirkland
American musician
11
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
12
Jymie Merritt
American bassist
13
Lonnie Plaxico
American jazz bassist
14
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
15
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
16
David Schnitter
American musician
17
Kevin Eubanks
musician, band leader
18
Brian Lynch
American musician
19
Reggie Johnson
American musician
20
Dale Barlow
Australian musician
21
Leon Lee Dorsey
American musician
22
Phil Bowler
American musician
23
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
24
Ray Drummond
American musician
25
Jeff "Tain" Watts
American musician
26
Ralph Peterson, Jr.
American jazz drummer
27
Wallace Roney
American musician
28
Rick Margitza
American musician
29
Bill Hardman
American musician
30
George Adams
musician
31
Johnny O'Neal
American musician
32
Jean Toussaint
jazz musician
33
Jon Hendricks
American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian
34
Victor Sproles
American musician
35
Bobby Broom
American musician
36
Geoffrey Keezer
American musician
37
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
38
Donald Brown
American musician
39
Victor Lewis
American jazz drummer
40
Charnett Moffett
American musician
41
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
42
Roy Hargrove
American jazz trumpeter
43
Lee Morgan
American trumpeter
44
Cameron Brown
American musician
45
Donald Harrison
musician, composer, producer, instructor
46
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
47
Ted Nash
American musician
48
Hank Mobley
American saxophonist
49
Ellis Marsalis Jr.
American pianist
50
Buster Williams
American musician
51
Craig Handy
American tenor saxophonist
52
Johnny Griffin
American musician
53
John Patitucci
American jazz bassist and composer
54
Javon Jackson
American musician
55
Woody Shaw
American musician
56
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
57
David Williams
American jazz musician
58
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
59
George Andrew Cables
American jazz pianist
60
Akira Tana
American jazz musician (1952- )
61
Clifford Brown
American jazz musician
