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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
