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Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
1
Eric Dolphy
American jazz musician
2
Harry Carney
American jazz musician
3
Jimmy Knepper
American musician
4
Charlie Parker
American jazz saxophonist and composer
5
Jaki Byard
American musician
6
John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
7
Dannie Richmond
American drummer
8
Bob Hammer
American pianist
9
Roland Hanna
American pianist
10
Charles McPherson
American jazz alto saxophonist
11
Jimmy Owens
jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator
12
Don Pullen
American jazz pianist and organist
13
Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
14
Charles Lloyd
American jazz musician
15
George Adams
musician
16
John Dankworth
British musician (1927-2010)
17
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
18
Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
19
Eddie Bert
American musician
20
Cootie Williams
American trumpeter
21
J. J. Johnson
American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924-2001)
22
Bud Powell
American pianist and composer
23
Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
24
Teddy Charles
American musician
25
Hampton Hawes
American jazz pianist
26
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
27
Elvin Jones
American jazz drummer
28
Jackie McLean
American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader
29
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Japanese American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, band master (1929-)
30
Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist
31
Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
32
Jon Faddis
Jazz trumpet player
33
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
34
Lennie Tristano
American jazz pianist and composer
35
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
36
Ricky Ford
American jazz tenor saxophonist
37
Rolf Ericson
Swedish musician
38
Jack Walrath
Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader
39
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
40
Lee Konitz
American jazz musician
41
Quentin Jackson
American musician
42
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
43
Teo Macero
American jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer
44
Gil Evans
American pianist
45
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
46
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
47
Modern Jazz Quartet
American jazz ensemble
48
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
49
Vienna Art Orchestra
big band
50
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
51
Eddie Preston
American musician
52
Cat Anderson
American jazz trumpeter
53
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
54
Red Norvo
American musician
55
Jim Hall
American jazz guitarist, composer
56
Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
