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Joe Thomas
American musician
1
Eddie Durham
American musician
2
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
3
Omer Simeon
American musician
4
Trummy Young
American jazz trombonist
5
Budd Johnson
American musician
6
Willie Smith
American musician
7
Russel Bowles
American musician
8
Gerald Wilson
American trumpetist (1918-2014)
9
Paul Webster
Jazz trumpeter
10
Jonah Jones
American musician
11
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
12
Sy Oliver
American jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader
13
Willie Cook
American musician
14
Rozelle Claxton
American jazz pianist
15
Moses Allen
musician
16
Ted Buckner
American musician
17
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
18
Horace Henderson
American musician
19
Jay McShann
American blues, jazz, and swing bandleader, pianist and singer
20
Jimmy Crawford
American musician (1910-1980)
21
Teddy McRae
American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger
22
Reunald Jones
American musician
23
Joe Wilder
American trumpeter
24
Benny Waters
American musician
25
Harold Ashby
American musician
26
Tadd Dameron
American pianist
27
Elmer Snowden
American musician
28
Truck Parham
American musician
29
Lawrence Brown
jazz trombonist
30
Charles Thompson
American pianist
31
Gil Fuller
American jazz arranger/composer and bandleader
32
Claude Williams
American musician
33
Freddie Webster
American musician
34
Buster Smith
Jazz alto saxophonist
35
Charlie Parker
American jazz saxophonist and composer
36
Bob James
smooth jazz keyboardist and composer
37
Cedric Wallace
American musician
38
Loren Schoenberg
American musician
39
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
40
Snooky Young
American musician
41
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
42
A. K. Salim
American musician
43
Bernie Glow
American musician
44
Haywood Henry
American jazz baritone saxophonist
45
Earl Klugh
American jazz guitarist
46
Earl Hines
American jazz pianist
47
Peanuts Holland
American musician
48
George Barnes
American musician
49
Will Hudson
Canadian-American composer, arranger, and big band leader
50
Gary Foster
Musician, Instrumentalist
51
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
52
Earl Bostic
American musician
53
Bumps Myers
American saxophonist
54
Maxine Sullivan
American blues and jazz singer (1911-1987)
55
Walter Page
American jazz musician
56
Billy Moore
American musician and pianist
57
Logan Richardson
American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
