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Bobby McFerrin
American jazz vocalist
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Abdullah Ibrahim
South African pianist and composer
2
Branford Marsalis
American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1960)
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Cécile McLorin Salvant
American jazz singer of French and Haitian roots
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Brad Mehldau
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
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Susanna Wallumrød
Norwegian singer
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Byron Wallen
British trumpeter
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Liam Noble
pianist
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John Taylor
British jazz pianist
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Michael Garrick
English pianist
10
Jim Hart
British drummer
11
Kathleen Battle
American opera singer
12
Billy Childs
American jazz pianist
13
Liane Carroll
British musician
14
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
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Orphy Robinson
British musician
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Russ Freeman
American musician
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Julian Anderson
British composer and teacher of composition
18
Harrison Birtwistle
British composer
19
Jimmy Scott
American jazz singer
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Jon Hendricks
American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian
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Gavin Bryars
British musician
22
Kenny Baker
British composer and musician
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Renée Fleming
American opera soprano
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Julian Joseph
British musician
25
Louis Andriessen
Dutch composer and pianist
26
Bobby Wellins
Scottish jazz musician
27
Julie Driscoll
English singer and actress
28
Arve Henriksen
Norwegian musician
29
Norma Winstone
English jazz singer
30
Tony Kofi
British musician
31
Rachel Z
American jazz pianist
32
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
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Elina Duni
Albanian singer
34
John Russell
English guitarist
35
Kenny Wheeler
Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
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Richard Mills
Australian conductor and composer
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Philip Glass
American composer and pianist
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Kurt Elling
American jazz singer and songwriter
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Nicholas Maw
British composer
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Michael Nyman
English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist
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Helen Grime
Scottish composer
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Larry Gray
American musician
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Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
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André Previn
German-American pianist, conductor and composer
