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Kahil El'Zabar
American musician
1
Roscoe Mitchell
American jazz musician
2
Muhal Richard Abrams
American musician
3
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
American saxophonist
4
Malachi Favors
American bassist
5
Reggie Nicholson
American musician
6
Joseph Jarman
American jazz musician
7
George Lewis
composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar
8
Phil Cohran
American trumpeter
9
Lester Bowie
American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)
10
Thurman Barker
American jazz drummer
11
Ernest Dawkins
jazz musician
12
Henry Threadgill
American jazz musician
13
Hamid Drake
American musician
14
Tomeka Reid
American jazz musician
15
Dana Hall
Jazz drummer
16
Douglas Ewart
American musician
17
Alvin Fielder
American drummer
18
Malachi Thompson
American musician
19
Donald Garrett
American musician and clarinetist
20
Nicole Mitchell
American jazz flutist
21
Marty Ehrlich
American musician
22
Don Moye
American percussionist
23
Mwata Bowden
American musician
24
Phillip Wilson
American drummer (1941-1992)
25
Jodie Christian
Jazz pianist
26
Amina Claudine Myers
American musician
27
Jaribu Shahid
American jazz bassist
28
Baikida Carroll
American musician
29
Iqua Colson
vocalist, composer, lyricist, arts administrator, and educator from the United States
30
Robert Irving III
American pianist and composer
31
Mercer Ellington
American musician
32
Anthony Brown
jazz musician
33
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer, and philosopher
34
Mike Reed
musical artist
35
Tani Tabbal
American jazz drummer
36
Dave Pell
American musician
37
Warren Smith
American musician
38
Craig S. Harris
American musician
39
Joseph Bowie
American musician
40
Art Ensemble of Chicago
American avant-garde group
41
Stanton Davis
American musician
42
Leroy Jenkins
composer and Avant-garde Jazz violinist and violist
43
Hamiet Bluiett
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer
44
Steve McCall
American jazz drummer
45
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
46
Gerald Wilson
American trumpetist (1918-2014)
47
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
48
Brainstorm
American funk and R&B band
49
Mark Helias
American musician
50
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
51
King Kolax
American musician
52
Andrew Lamb
American musician
53
Julian Priester
American jazz trombonist
54
Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band
55
Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
56
Dave Douglas
American jazz trumpeter
