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Tani Tabbal
American jazz drummer
1
Jaribu Shahid
American jazz bassist
2
Dennis González
American musician
3
Mats Gustafsson
Swedish musician
4
Trevor Watts
English jazz musician
5
Thomas Borgmann
musician
6
Ted Nash
American musician
7
Tim Ries
American jazz saxophonist
8
Derek Bailey
British guitarist
9
Hamid Drake
American musician
10
Roscoe Mitchell
American jazz musician
11
Jane Ira Bloom
American jazz saxophonist and composer
12
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
13
John Stevens
English drummer
14
Wendell Harrison
American musician
15
Milt Jackson
American musician
16
Gil Scott-Heron
American musician, poet and author
17
Dave Douglas
American jazz trumpeter
18
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
19
Rent Romus
American musician
20
David McMurray
American jazz musician
21
Kenny Garrett
American musician
22
Saskia Laroo
Dutch jazz musician
23
Steve Kuhn
American pianist
24
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
25
Dave Holland
British musician
26
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
27
Art Pepper
American musician
28
Roy Brooks
American drummer
29
Ellery Eskelin
musician
30
Andreas Paolo Perger
Guitarist, Improviser, Composer
31
Rachel Z
American jazz pianist
32
Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
33
AMM
British free improvisation group
34
Oliver Nelson
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (1932-1975)
35
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
36
His Name Is Alive
American band
37
Don Ellis
American jazz musician
38
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
39
Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
40
Ken Vandermark
American jazz composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
41
Lenny White
American drummer
42
Rhodri Davies
British musician
43
Miguel Zenón
Puerto Rican alto saxophonist
44
Vinny Golia
American musician
45
Mark Helias
American musician
46
Rich Halley
American saxophonist
47
Big Miller
American blues singer (1922-1992)
48
Brad Mehldau
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
49
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
50
Gavin Bryars
British musician
51
Marion Brown
American saxophonist
52
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
53
Alice Coltrane
American jazz musician
54
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
55
Dewey Redman
American saxophonist
56
Eddie Prévost
Drummer/percussionist/writer/publisher
57
Lol Coxhill
English free improvising saxophonist and raconteur (1932-2012)
58
Nicolas Vérin
French composer
59
Orphy Robinson
British musician
