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Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
1
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
2
Jamil Nasser
American bassist
3
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
4
Lex Humphries
American drummer
5
Tate Houston
American saxophonist
6
Herman Wright
American jazz musician
7
Roy Brooks
American drummer
8
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
9
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
10
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
11
Shadow Wilson
American jazz drummer (1919-1959)
12
Sonny Red
American musician
13
Will Davis
Jazz pianist
14
Yusef Lateef
American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
15
Tommy Potter
American musician
16
Leroy Williams
American jazz drummer
17
Louis Hayes
American drummer
18
Lennie McBrowne
American musician
19
Kiane Zawadi
American jazz musician
20
Ben Riley
American drummer
21
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
22
Frankie Dunlop
American jazz drummer
23
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
24
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
25
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
26
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
27
Albert Heath
American drummer
28
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
29
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
30
Curley Russell
American jazz musician
31
Charlie Rouse
American musician
32
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
33
Nelson Boyd
American musician
34
Vernel Fournier
American musician
35
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
36
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
37
Bobby Battle
American musician
38
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
39
Terry Pollard
jazz pianist prominent in the Detroit jazz scene of the 1940s and 1950s
40
Jimmy Owens
jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator
41
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
42
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
43
Oliver Jackson
American drummer
44
Charlie Rice
jazz musician
45
Wilbur Ware
American musician
46
Hugh Lawson
American pianist
47
Kirk Lightsey
American musician
48
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
49
Al McKibbon
American musician
50
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
51
Joe Newman
American musician
52
Ricky Ford
American jazz tenor saxophonist
53
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
54
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
55
Walter Davis
American pianist
56
Joe Henderson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
57
Leroy Vinnegar
American bassist
58
Louis Smith
American musician
59
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
60
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
61
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
62
Paul Chambers
American musician
63
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
64
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
65
Walter Perkins
American drummer
66
Milt Jackson
American musician
67
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
68
Percy Heath
American musician
