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Pauline Braddy
American jazz drummer
1
Roz Cron
jazz musician
2
Clora Bryant
American musician
3
Mary Lou Williams
American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
4
Valaida Snow
American musician
5
Geri Allen
American composer and jazz pianist
6
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
7
Jimmy Maxwell
American musician
8
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
9
Mary Osborne
American musician
10
Regina Carter
American musician
11
Lovie Austin
American pianist
12
Melba Liston
American jazz trombonist, musical arranger, and composer
13
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
14
Chuck Findley
American musician
15
Ernestine Anderson
American jazz and blues singer
16
Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
17
Doc Cheatham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader
18
Maggie Nicols
British musician and dancer
19
Irene Kitchings
American musician and pianist
20
Lil Hardin Armstrong
American jazz musician
21
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
22
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
23
Cat Anderson
American jazz trumpeter
24
Sherrie Maricle
American jazz drummer
25
Cab Calloway
American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)
26
Mildred Bailey
American jazz singer
27
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
28
Dorothy Ashby
American jazz harpist
29
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
30
Dick Wellstood
American jazz pianist
31
Billie Pierce
American jazz pianist and singer
32
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
33
Ada Leonard
American bandleader
34
Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer
35
Lavay Smith
American singer
36
Tiny Davis
American trumpeter
37
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
38
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
39
Patti Austin
American singer
40
Buster Bailey
American musician
41
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
42
Max Jones
British jazz author, radio host, and journalist
43
Herb Geller
American saxophonist (1928-2013)
44
W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
45
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
46
Jonah Jones
American musician
47
Don Elliott
jazz musician
48
J. J. Johnson
American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924-2001)
49
Laurie Frink
American musician and music educator
50
Benny Bailey
American musician
51
Blanche Calloway
American singer, bandleader and composer
