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Cooper-Moore
American musician
1
Jason Nazary
2
David S. Ware
jazz musician
3
Muhammad Ali
free jazz drummer
4
Kidd Jordan
American saxophonist
5
Bob Moses
American musician
6
Whit Dickey
American musician
7
William Parker
American jazz musician
8
Hamid Drake
American musician
9
James Spaulding
American saxophonist
10
Arthur Doyle
American musician
11
Eric Darius
American musician
12
Harold McNair
Jamaican musician
13
Ernie Watts
American jazz musician
14
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
15
Mat Maneri
American composer, improviser and jazz violin and viola player
16
Warren Smith
American musician
17
Charles Davis
American musician
18
Ted Nash
American musician
19
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
20
Albert Ayler
American jazz saxophonist
21
Tom Scott
American jazz musician
22
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
23
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
24
Hank Crawford
American saxophonist (1934-2009)
25
Oliver Nelson
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (1932-1975)
26
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
American musician
27
Dick Oatts
American jazz saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator
28
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
29
Mike Pride
American drummer
30
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
31
Yusef Lateef
American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
32
Elvin Jones
American jazz drummer
33
Roy Campbell, Jr.
American trumpeter (1952-2014)
34
Avery Sharpe
American musician
35
Dave Holland
British musician
36
Paul Murphy
American musician
37
Dave Pike
American jazz musician
38
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
39
Tim Gemmill
American jazz musician
40
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
41
Iain Ballamy
British musician
42
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
43
Joe Lovano
American jazz flautist, saxophonist, clarinettist
44
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
45
David Sanborn
American saxophonist
46
Javon Jackson
American musician
47
Michael Brecker
American musician
48
Lol Coxhill
English free improvising saxophonist and raconteur (1932-2012)
49
Charnett Moffett
American musician
50
Julius Hemphill
American saxophonist
51
Charles Lloyd
American jazz musician
52
Bob Belden
American musician
53
Chu Berry
American musician
54
Cornelis Hazevoet
Dutch ornithologist and jazz musician
55
Gerald Albright
American saxophonist
56
Eddie Daniels
American musician
57
Dave Koz
American jazz saxophonist
58
Hubert Laws
American flutist and saxophonist
