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Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
1
Tommy Potter
American musician
2
Curley Russell
American jazz musician
3
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
4
Leonard Gaskin
American musician
5
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
6
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
7
George Duvivier
American musician
8
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
9
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
10
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
11
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
12
Fats Navarro
American jazz trumpeter
13
Leroy Williams
American jazz drummer
14
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
15
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
16
Jimmy Raney
American musician
17
Percy Heath
American musician
18
Teddy Kotick
American musician
19
Charles McPherson
American jazz alto saxophonist
20
Louis Hayes
American drummer
21
Walter Bishop Jr.
American jazz pianist, recording artist
22
Leroy Vinnegar
American bassist
23
Gene Ramey
American musician
24
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
25
Tony Aless
Jazz pianist
26
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
27
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
28
Art Mardigan
American musician
29
Bennie Green
American musician
30
Tadd Dameron
American pianist
31
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
32
Brew Moore
American musician
33
Sonny Criss
American jazz musician
34
Bob Carter
American bassist
35
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
36
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
37
Al Haig
American pianist
38
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
39
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
40
Charlie Rouse
American musician
41
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
42
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
43
Addison Farmer
American musician
44
Don Lamond
American musician
45
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
46
Eddie Safranski
American musician
47
Monty Budwig
American double bassist
48
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
49
Howard McGhee
American trumpeter
50
Joanne Brackeen
American musician and jazz educator
51
Sanford Gold
American musician
52
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
53
Shadow Wilson
American jazz drummer (1919-1959)
54
Walter Booker
American jazz double-bassist
55
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
56
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
57
Gigi Gryce
American recording artist; jazz saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator
58
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
59
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
60
Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
61
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
62
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
63
Stan Levey
American musician
64
Joe Newman
American musician
65
Johnny Griffin
American musician
66
Kai Winding
Danish-born American jazz musician and trombonist
67
Mousey Alexander
Jazz drummer
68
Earl Coleman
American singer
69
James Buffington
American musician
70
Hal Galper
American pianist
71
Hampton Hawes
American jazz pianist
72
Mel Lewis
American musician
73
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
74
Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
75
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
76
Lucky Thompson
American saxophonist
