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Jimmy Knepper
American musician
1
Jackie Paris
American singer
2
Buddy Collette
American musician
3
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
4
Booker Ervin
American saxophonist
5
Chico Hamilton
American musician
6
Rolf Ericson
Swedish musician
7
Eric Dolphy
American jazz musician
8
Dannie Richmond
American drummer
9
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
10
Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
11
Jay Berliner
American musician
12
James Moody
American jazz musician
13
Quentin Jackson
American musician
14
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
15
Lou Blackburn
American musician
16
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
17
Teddy Edwards
American jazz tenor saxophonist
18
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
19
Charlie Mariano
American alto saxophonist
20
Danny Bank
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist
21
Don Butterfield
American musician
22
Walter Perkins
American drummer
23
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
24
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
25
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
26
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
27
Johnny Coles
American trumpeter
28
Frankie Dunlop
American jazz drummer
29
Bob Hammer
American pianist
30
Ted Curson
Jazz trumpeter
31
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
32
Charlie Rouse
American musician
33
Jack Nimitz
American saxophonist
34
Benny Powell
American jazz trombonist
35
Jack Montrose
American musician
36
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
37
Bobby Bryant
American trumpeter
38
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
39
Eddie Bert
American musician
40
Henry Coker
American musician
41
Connie Kay
American musician
42
George Coleman
American musician
43
Jaki Byard
American musician
44
Walter Norris
American pianist
45
Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
46
Dick Berk
American drummer
47
Eddie Preston
American musician
48
John Dankworth
British musician (1927-2010)
49
Bob Thiele
American record producer, music executive (1922-1996)
50
George Barrow
American jazz musician
51
Red Norvo
American musician
52
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
53
Gordon Jenkins
American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s
54
Willie Dennis
jazz musician
55
Monk Montgomery
American jazz bassist
56
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
57
Howard Roberts
American guitarist
58
Harold Land
American musician
59
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
60
Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
61
Henry Grimes
American musician
62
Bob Brookmeyer
American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer
63
Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
64
Hampton Hawes
American jazz pianist
65
Ed Shaughnessy
American jazz drummer
66
Lucky Thompson
American saxophonist
67
Sam Most
American jazz flautist, clarinetist, and tenor saxophonist
68
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
69
George Adams
musician
70
Charlie Barnet
American saxophonist, composer, bandleader
71
Emil Richards
American musician
72
Don Bagley
American jazz bassist
73
Jack Walrath
Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader
