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Art Taylor

American jazz drummer

1

Doug Watkins

American jazz double bassist

2

Wendell Marshall

American jazz musician; double bassist

3

Gigi Gryce

American recording artist; jazz saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator

4

Wade Legge

Jazz pianist and bassist

5

Kenny Dorham

American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer

6

Philly Joe Jones

American jazz drummer

7

Julius Watkins

American jazz musician

8

Percy Heath

American musician

9

Cecil Payne

American jazz saxophonist

10

Jimmy Cleveland

American jazz trombonist

11

Addison Farmer

American musician

12

Sahib Shihab

American jazz saxophonist and flautist

13

Idrees Sulieman

American musician

14

Louis Hayes

American drummer

15

Charlie Persip

American jazz drummer

16

Don Butterfield

American musician

17

Bobby Jaspar

cool jazz and hard bop saxophonist, flautist and composer

18

Barry Harris

American bebop jazz pianist

19

Oscar Pettiford

American musician

20

Kenny Clarke

American jazz drummer

21

Osie Johnson

American jazz drummer, arranger and singer

22

Curtis Fuller

American jazz musician

23

Charlie Rouse

American musician

24

Duke Jordan

American musician

25

Pepper Adams

American saxophonist

26

John Jenkins

American jazz saxophonist

27

Milt Jackson

American musician

28

Kenny Burrell

American jazz guitarist

29

Duke Pearson

American pianist

30

The Jazz Messengers

American jazz band

31

Richard Williams

American jazz trumpeter

32

George Coleman

American musician

33

Thad Jones

American jazz trumpeter

34

Red Garland

American modern jazz pianist (1923-1984)

35

Sam Jones

American double bassist and cellist

36

Frank Foster

American jazz musician and bandleader

37

Peck Morrison

American musician

38

Nat Adderley

American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player

39

Max Roach

American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer

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Teddy Kotick

American musician

41

Johnny Griffin

American musician

42

Ed Thigpen

American jazz drummer

43

Julian Priester

American jazz trombonist

44

Benny Powell

American jazz trombonist

45

Walter Davis

American pianist

46

Al Dreares

American jazz drummer

47

Miles Davis Quintet

American jazz quintet led by Miles Davis

48

Bill Hardman

American musician

49

Mickey Roker

American jazz drummer

50

Pierre Michelot

French jazz double bassist

51

Joe Wilder

American trumpeter

52

Sonny Clark

American musician

53

Sonny Red

American musician

54

Billy Higgins

American jazz drummer

55

Frank Wess

American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger

56

Jimmy Gourley

American jazz guitarist

57

Jerome Richardson

American jazz multi-instrumentalist

58

Henry Coker

American musician

59

Teddy Charles

American musician

60

Cedar Walton

American hard bop jazz pianist

61

Johnny Coles

American trumpeter

62

George Duvivier

American musician

63

Jimmy Cobb

American jazz drummer

64

Shadow Wilson

American jazz drummer (1919-1959)

65

Zoot Sims

American jazz saxophonist

66

Harold Land

American musician

67

Dizzy Reece

Jamaican trumpeter

68

Joe Puma

American musician

69

Jimmy Heath

American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader

70

Matthew Gee

American musician

71

Roy Haynes

American jazz drummer and group leader

72

James Buffington

American musician

73

Hank Mobley

American saxophonist

74

Charlie Shavers

jazz trumpeter

75

Bobby Donaldson

American musician

76

Albert Heath

American drummer