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Dave Holland
British musician
1
George Coleman
American musician
2
Jack DeJohnette
American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer
3
Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
4
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
5
Michael Mantler
Austrian musician
6
Melissa Aldana
Chilean saxophonist
7
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
8
Percy Heath
American musician
9
Kenny Wheeler
Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
10
Tomasz Stańko
Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser
11
Harold Mabern
American pianist
12
Michael Gibbs
Rhodesian born English jazz composer
13
Eddie Gomez
Puerto Rican bassist
14
John Abercrombie
American jazz guitarist
15
Lyle Mays
American jazz musician
16
Eli Degibri
Israeli-born jazz saxophonists and composer
17
McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
18
Miroslav Vitouš
Czech bass guitarist, jazz musician and contrabassist
19
Gary Burton
American vibraphonist
20
Charles Davis
American musician
21
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
22
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
23
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
24
Chico Hamilton
American musician
25
Vijay Iyer
American jazz musician
26
Dewey Redman
American saxophonist
27
Ellis Marsalis Jr.
American pianist
28
Milt Jackson
American musician
29
Phillip Wilson
American drummer (1941-1992)
30
Elvin Jones
American jazz drummer
31
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
32
Trygve Seim
Norwegian jazz musician
33
Bill Frisell
American musician
34
Henry Threadgill
American jazz musician
35
Bobo Stenson
Swedish jazz pianist and composer
36
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
37
Johnny Griffin
American musician
38
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
39
Eric Harland
American musician
40
Dave Liebman
American jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist
41
Cannonball Adderley
American jazz alto saxophonist
42
Modern Jazz Quartet
American jazz ensemble
43
Drew Gress
American musician
44
Old and New Dreams
band that plays jazz
45
Branford Marsalis
American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1960)
46
Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer
47
Andrew Cyrille
American avant-garde jazz drummer
48
Ralph Peterson, Jr.
American jazz drummer
49
Evan Parker
English saxophonist
50
Danilo Pérez
Panamanian pianist and composer
51
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Japanese American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, band master (1929-)
52
Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist
53
Dave Douglas
American jazz trumpeter
54
Franco Ambrosetti
Swiss musician
55
James Williams
American jazz pianist
56
Nancy Wilson
American singer (1937-2018)
57
Marvin Smith
American musician
58
Jim Hall
American jazz guitarist, composer
59
Bobby Timmons
American pianist
60
Muhal Richard Abrams
American musician
61
Thomas Strønen
Jazz drummer
62
Craig Taborn
American musician
63
Wes Montgomery
American jazz musician
64
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
65
John Scofield
American jazz guitarist and composer
66
Billy Childs
American jazz pianist
67
Mark Feldman
American violinist
68
Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
69
John Dankworth
British musician (1927-2010)
70
Wadada Leo Smith
American jazz trumpeter and composer
71
Jack Cooper
American composer, arranger, orchestrator, multireedist, and music educator.
72
Enrico Rava
Italian trumpeter
73
John Surman
British saxophonist and clarinetist
74
Arild Andersen
Norwegian jazz musician
75
Joey DeFrancesco
American jazz musician
76
Tom Harrell
American composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist
77
Chris Laurence
musician
78
George Avakian
American record producer of Armenian descent
79
Barry Altschul
American drummer
80
Don Butterfield
American musician
81
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
