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Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
1
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
2
Kiane Zawadi
American jazz musician
3
Herbie Lewis
American musician
4
Cecil McBee
American bassist
5
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
6
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
7
Beaver Harris
American musician
8
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
9
Benny Golson
American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger (born 1929)
10
Junior Cook
American saxophonist
11
Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
12
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
13
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
14
Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
15
Louis Hayes
American drummer
16
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
17
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
18
Harold Land
American musician
19
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
20
Dave Bailey
American drummer
21
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
22
Sonny Clark
American musician
23
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
24
Sonny Red
American musician
25
Pete La Roca
American drummer
26
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
27
Ben Riley
American drummer
28
Tommy Turrentine
American swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer
29
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
30
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
31
George Coleman
American musician
32
Wilbur Little
American musician
33
Roy Brooks
American drummer
34
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
35
Walter Davis
American pianist
36
Herman Wright
American jazz musician
37
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
38
George Andrew Cables
American jazz pianist
39
Leroy Vinnegar
American bassist
40
Art Davis
American double-bassist
41
Ray Copeland
American musician
42
Percy Heath
American musician
43
Henry Grimes
American musician
44
Leroy Williams
American jazz drummer
45
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
46
Hod OBrien
American musician
47
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
48
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
49
Julian Priester
American jazz trombonist
50
Walter Bishop Jr.
American jazz pianist, recording artist
51
James Buffington
American musician
52
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
53
Joe Chambers
American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer
54
Jymie Merritt
American bassist
55
Bobby Jaspar
cool jazz and hard bop saxophonist, flautist and composer
56
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
57
Elmo Hope
American musician
58
Tina Brooks
American musician
59
Pierre Michelot
French jazz double bassist
60
Les Spann
American guitarist
61
Charlie Rouse
American musician
62
Larry Ridley
American musician
63
Johnny Griffin
American musician
64
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
65
Bill Hardman
American musician
66
James Spaulding
American saxophonist
67
Charles Davis
American musician
68
Cameron Brown
American musician
69
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
70
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
71
Malachi Favors
American bassist
72
Albert Dailey
American musician
73
Melba Liston
American jazz trombonist, musical arranger, and composer
74
Walter Booker
American jazz double-bassist
75
Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
76
George Morrow
American jazz bassist
