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Dave Ballou
American musician
1
Mark Dresser
American musician
2
Ned Rothenberg
American composer
3
Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
4
Django Reinhardt
Belgian-born Romani French jazz guitarist and composer
5
Paul Denman
English songwriter and bass guitarist
6
Ron Carter
American jazz bassist, cellist, and composer
7
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
8
Bill Ashton
British musician
9
Bill Evans
American jazz pianist
10
Earl Hines
American jazz pianist
11
Art Tatum
American jazz pianist
12
Brian Lemon
British musician
13
George Benson
American recording artist, guitarist, singer, and songwriter
14
Erroll Garner
American jazz pianist and composer
15
Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
16
Giovanni Hidalgo
Puerto Rican percussionist and music educator
17
Miles Davis
American jazz musician (1926-1991)
18
Michael Cain
American pianist and composer
19
Jaki Byard
American musician
20
McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
21
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
22
Glenn Miller
American big band musician, arranger, composer and bandleader (1904-1944)
23
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
24
Don Burrows
Australian jazz musician
25
Andrew Hill
American jazz pianist and composer
26
Rudy Van Gelder
American recording engineer
27
Jaco Pastorius
American jazz bassist, producer, educator
28
Ian Stewart
British musician and tour manager
29
Dave Brubeck
American jazz pianist and composer
30
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
31
Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
32
Paul Bacon
Designer of book and album covers
33
Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
34
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
35
Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
36
Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
37
Krzysztof Komeda
Polish musician
38
Billy Strayhorn
American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger
39
The Brian Setzer Orchestra
American band
40
Wes Montgomery
American jazz musician
41
Buster Williams
American musician
42
Dave McKenna
American musician
43
Sonny Sharrock
American guitarist (1940-1995)
44
Babatunde Lea
Cuban musician
45
Michel Camilo
Dominican Grammy-award winning pianist and composer (born 1954)
46
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
47
Cal Tjader
American Latin jazz musician, recording artist
48
Joe Williams
American jazz singer
