0
Shadowfax
band
1
Opafire
2
Armen Chakmakian
American musician
3
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
4
Jack Cooper
American composer, arranger, orchestrator, multireedist, and music educator.
5
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
6
Lazy Lester
American blues harmonica player
7
Grateful Dead
American rock band
8
Big Mountain
band
9
Fourplay
American smooth jazz quartet
10
Red Saunders
American musician
11
War
American funk band
12
The Mothers of Invention
American rock band from California
13
Hank Thompson
American country musician
14
Jesse Stone
American rhythm and blues musician and songwriter
15
Esmond Edwards
American photographer and record producer
16
Jimmy Nelson
American jump blues and rhythm and blues shouter and songwriter
17
Noble Sissle
African-American jazz musician
18
Otis Spann
American Chicago blues pianist
19
Robbie Robertson
Canadian recording artist; singer-songwriter and guitarist
20
Living Colour
American rock band
21
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
22
Jimi Hendrix
American guitarist, singer and songwriter
23
Chuck Leavell
US musician
24
Johnny Pacheco
Dominican musician
25
Rent Romus
American musician
26
Gil Evans
American pianist
27
Steely Dan
American rock band
28
Roy Milton
American R&B and jump blues singer, drummer and bandleader
29
Joe LaBarbera
American musician
30
Jerry Goodman
American musician
31
Gary Foster
Musician, Instrumentalist
32
Ry Cooder
American guitarist, singer and composer
33
Johnny Hartman
Jazz Singer
34
The Beach Boys
American rock band
35
Ted Heath
British musician
36
Etta James
American recording artist; singer
37
Irving Aaronson
American jazz pianist and big band leader
38
Sarah Vaughan
American jazz singer
39
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer, and philosopher
40
Lovie Austin
American pianist
41
Victoria Williams
American singer, songwriter
42
Kathy Kosins
American jazz and R&B singer
43
Yellowjackets
American jazz fusion band
44
George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898-1937)
45
Frank Zappa
American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer (1940-1993)
46
Otis Blackwell
American songwriter, singer, and pianist
47
Washboard Sam
American blues singer and musician
48
Ben Perowsky
American drummer
49
Suzanne Vega
American singer
50
Paul Butterfield
American blues singer and harmonica player
51
Charlie Parker
American jazz saxophonist and composer
52
The Champs
American rock and roll band
53
Bob Gaudio
American musician
54
Luis Bonilla
American musician
55
Sly Stone
American musician, songwriter, and record producer
56
Leo Nocentelli
guitarist, musician
57
Michael Gibbs
Rhodesian born English jazz composer
58
Jimmy Rogers
Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player
59
Patrice Rushen
American musician
60
Mel Tormé
American recording artist, singer, songwriter, actor, writer, music arranger (1925-1999)
61
Ruth Brown
American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)
62
Ottmar Liebert
German guitarist
