0
Mezz Mezzrow
American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
1
Earl Bostic
American musician
2
Pops Foster
American musician
3
Wesley Wilson
American blues, jazz, and vaudeville singer and songwriter (1893-1958)
4
Hot Lips Page
American jazz musician
5
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
6
Big Joe Williams
American Delta blues guitarist, recording artist, singer and songwriter
7
Samuel Charters
American music historian and musician
8
Pete York
British musician
9
Art Hodes
American musician
10
Wilson Myers
American musician
11
Roosevelt Sykes
American blues musician
12
Bob Wilber
jazz clarinetist, composer and saxophonist from United States
13
Mickey Baker
American jazz and rock guitarist
14
Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
15
Kansas Fields
American musician
16
Danny Barker
American jazz musician
17
Eddie Bo
New Orleans jazz musician
18
Christine Kittrell
Singer-songwriter, musician
19
Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
20
J.D. Short
American Delta blues singer, guitarist and harmonicist
21
Guitar Slim
American blues musician
22
Wingy Manone
American musician
23
Mahalia Jackson
American gospel singer
24
Joe Louis Walker
Blues musician
25
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American gospel musician
26
Wycliffe Gordon
American musician
27
Little Joe Blue
American musician
28
Tommy Ladnier
Jazz cornetist/trumpeter
29
Homesick James
American blues musician
30
Budd Johnson
American musician
31
Kaiser Marshall
American musician
32
The Subdudes
American roots rock band
33
Bunk Johnson
American musician
34
Roy Brown
American R&B singer, songwriter and musician
35
Jimmie Noone
American musician
36
Lightnin' Hopkins
American country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
37
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
38
John Mayall
English blues musician
39
Zutty Singleton
American jazz drummer
40
Lee Collins
American musician
41
Johnny Winter
American blues guitarist and singer
42
Joe Robichaux
American musician
43
Johnny Hodges
American alto saxophonist
44
Dick Wellstood
American jazz pianist
45
Lloyd Price
American singer, songwriter
46
C. J. Chenier
American musician
47
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
48
Blue Mitchell
American musician
49
Ralph Bass
R&B record producer
50
Henry Gray
African-American blues piano player and singer
51
Cozy Cole
American musician
52
Jack Teagarden
American jazz musician
53
Joe Newman
American musician
54
Johnnie Johnson
American musician
55
John Hammond
American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic
56
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
57
Colin Linden
Canadian musician, songwriter and record producer
58
Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
59
Joe Williams
American jazz singer
60
Moses "Whispering" Smith
American blues harmonicist and singer
61
Pierre Michelot
French jazz double bassist
62
Clarence Williams
American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher
63
Professor Longhair
African-American blues musician
