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Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
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Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
2
Beaver Harris
American musician
3
Benny Golson
American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger (born 1929)
4
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
American musician
5
Mickey Tucker
American pianist
6
Tommy Turrentine
American swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer
7
Bobby Few
American musician
8
Saheb Sarbib
American musician
9
Dave Burrell
American musician
10
Archie Shepp
American jazz musician
11
Howard Johnson
American musician
12
J. C. Moses
American musician
13
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
14
Donald Garrett
American musician and clarinetist
15
Don Butterfield
American musician
16
Cameron Brown
American musician
17
Herbie Lewis
American musician
18
Albert Dailey
American musician
19
Eddie Preston
American musician
20
Benny Bailey
American musician
21
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
22
Tete Montoliu
Spanish jazz musician and pianist (1933-1997)
23
Patti Bown
American musician
24
Earl May
American musician
25
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
26
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
27
Roswell Rudd
American trombonist
28
Clifford Jarvis
American drummer
29
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
30
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
31
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
32
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
33
Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
34
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
35
Jimmy Knepper
American musician
36
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
37
Rahn Burton
American jazz pianist
38
Dick Griffin
American musician
39
Roland Hanna
American pianist
40
Ronnie Burrage
American musician
41
Avery Sharpe
American musician
42
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
43
Walter Perkins
American drummer
44
Danny Bank
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist
45
Malachi Favors
American bassist
46
Calo Scott
musical artist
47
Ronnie Boykins
American musician
48
Marion Brown
American saxophonist
49
Sonny Fortune
American saxophonist
50
Billy Butler
American musician
51
Clifford Thornton
American musician
52
Clarence Sharpe
53
Milt Jackson
American musician
54
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
55
Mundell Lowe
American jazz guitarist (1922-2017)
56
Lewis Worrell
American musician
57
Denis Charles
American jazz drummer
58
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
American musical group; New Orleans, Louisiana, brass band
59
Bobby Donaldson
American musician
60
Oliver Jackson
American drummer
61
Eddie Henderson
American musician
62
David Izenzon
American musician
