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Jimmy Woode
American bassist
1
Fats Sadi
Belgian musician
2
Åke Persson
Swedish musician
3
Benny Bailey
American musician
4
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
5
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
6
Jimmy Deuchar
British musician
7
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
8
Johnny Griffin
American musician
9
Shake Keane
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines musician (1927-1997)
10
Kenny Clare
British musician
11
Ronnie Scott
British musician
12
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
13
Duško Gojković
Serbian musician
14
Nat Peck
American musician
15
Tony Coe
British jazz musician
16
Manfred Schoof
German musician
17
Herb Geller
American saxophonist (1928-2013)
18
Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
19
Don Byas
American musician
20
Kenny Ball
English trumpeter, band leader, arranger
21
Jean-Luc Ponty
French musician
22
Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay
Swedish trumpeter
23
Modern Jazz Quartet
American jazz ensemble
24
Manny Albam
musician and composer
25
Roger Guérin
French jazz trumpeter and singer
26
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
27
Carmen McRae
American jazz musician and actress
28
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
29
Pierre Michelot
French jazz double bassist
30
Albert Mangelsdorff
German jazz trombonist
31
Slide Hampton
American trombonist
32
Albert Heath
American drummer
33
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
34
Ernie Wilkins
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and music arranger
35
James Moody
American jazz musician
36
Nathan Davis
American hard bop jazz musician
37
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
38
Jimmy Gourley
American jazz guitarist
39
Cat Anderson
American jazz trumpeter
40
Dave Pike
American jazz musician
41
Tete Montoliu
Spanish jazz musician and pianist (1933-1997)
42
Claude Bolling
French musician
43
Bob Brookmeyer
American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer
44
René Thomas
Belgian musician
45
Keg Johnson
American jazz trombonists
46
Sabu Martinez
American musician
47
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
48
Stan Sulzmann
British musician
49
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
50
Dom Um Romão
Brazilian jazz drummer, percussionist
51
Billie Poole
American jazz singer
52
Ronnie Stephenson
British musician
53
Joe Henderson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
54
Don Menza
American saxophonist
55
Percy Heath
American musician
56
Kenny Wheeler
Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
57
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
58
Lucky Thompson
American saxophonist
59
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
60
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
61
Jimmy Smith
American jazz musician
62
Buck Clarke
American jazz percussionist
63
Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
64
Peter Trunk
German composer
65
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
66
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
67
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
