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Incognito

British band

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Defunkt

American band

2

Count Basie Orchestra

American big band led by Count Basie

3

Ella Fitzgerald

American jazz singer

4

Pete Yellin

American jazz musician

5

Harry Connick Jr.

American singer, conductor, pianist, actor, and composer

6

Count Basie

American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)

7

Frank Foster

American jazz musician and bandleader

8

Al Grey

American jazz musician

9

Maceo Parker

American saxophonist and composer

10

Gerald Wilson

American trumpetist (1918-2014)

11

Money Johnson

American musician

12

Bob Mintzer

jazz musician

13

Illinois Jacquet

American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter

14

Keri Kelli

American guitarist

15

Kelli Ali

English vocalist

16

Marshal Royal

American musician

17

Billy Mitchell

American jazz tenor saxophonist

18

Claude Williams

American musician

19

Fred Wesley

American jazz trombonist

20

Buddy DeFranco

American jazz clarinetist and bandleader

21

Joe Wilder

American trumpeter

22

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

American saxophonist

23

Budd Johnson

American musician

24

Sneaker Pimps

British Trip Hop band

25

Freddie Green

American jazz guitarist

26

George Shearing

British-American jazz pianist

27

Steve Smith

American drummer

28

John Clayton

American jazz and classical double bassist

29

Neal Hefti

American jazz trumpeter, composer, songwriter, and arranger (1928-2008)

30

Butch Miles

American jazz drummer

31

J. Geils

American musician

32

Ralph Burns

American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger

33

Kenny Clarke

American jazz drummer

34

Harry Edison

American trumpeter

35

Ernestine Anderson

American jazz and blues singer

36

Gil Parris

American musician

37

Bill Hughes

jazz musician

38

Lionel Hampton

American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)

39

Dennis Mackrel

jazz musician

40

Curtis Fuller

American jazz musician

41

David "Fathead" Newman

American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist

42

Chris Potter

American musician

43

John Bernard Riley

American musician

44

Buddy Rich

American jazz drummer and bandleader

45

Monty Alexander

Jamaican pianist

46

Dave Holland

British musician

47

Johnny Mandel

American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz (1925-2020)

48

Joe Newman

American musician

49

Maria Schneider

Jazz bandleader and composer

50

Hugh McDonald

American musician, session musician, bass-guitarist

51

Vernon Alley

American jazz bassist

52

Jimmy Rushing

American blues shouter and swing jazz singer

53

Louis Smith

American musician

54

Howard McGhee

American trumpeter

55

Luis Conte

Cuban jazz musician

56

Benny Bailey

American musician

57

Billie Holiday

American jazz singer

58

Cleveland Eaton

American musician

59

Jesse Stone

American rhythm and blues musician and songwriter

60

Oteil Burbridge

American musician

61

Earl Hines

American jazz pianist

62

Frank Wess

American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger

63

Tadd Dameron

American pianist

64

Jean-Luc Ponty

French musician

65

J. J. Johnson

American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924-2001)

66

Duke Ellington

American jazz musician, composer and band leader

67

Wayne Bergeron

American musician

68

Thad Jones

American jazz trumpeter

69

Louie Bellson

American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator

70

Preston Love

American saxophonist