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Slide Hampton
American trombonist
1
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
2
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
3
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
4
Shadow Wilson
American jazz drummer (1919-1959)
5
Eddie Bert
American musician
6
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
7
Joe Gordon
American trumpeter
8
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
9
Boyd Lee Dunlop
American jazz pianist
10
Speedy Jones
American drummer
11
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
12
Walter Davis
American pianist
13
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
14
Al Grey
American jazz musician
15
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
16
Benny Powell
American jazz trombonist
17
George Tucker
American musician
18
Rolf Ericson
Swedish musician
19
Quentin Jackson
American musician
20
Don Butterfield
American musician
21
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
22
Maynard Ferguson
Canadian jazz musician and bandleader
23
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
24
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
25
Ray Copeland
American musician
26
Wilbur Ware
American musician
27
Sonny Clark
American musician
28
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
29
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
30
Ben Riley
American drummer
31
Joe Farrell
American saxophonist
32
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
33
Frank Rehak
American musician
34
Eddie Preston
American musician
35
Lou Blackburn
American musician
36
Harold Land
American musician
37
Teo Macero
American jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer
38
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
39
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
40
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
41
Johnny Griffin
American musician
42
Larry Gales
American musician
43
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
44
Henry Coker
American musician
45
Bennie Green
American musician
46
Willie Maiden
American musician
47
Charlie Rouse
American musician
48
Joe Zawinul
Austrian composer and pianist
49
John Ore
American musician
50
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
51
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
52
Charles McPherson
American jazz alto saxophonist
53
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
54
Red Callender
American string bass and tuba player, member of The Wrecking Crew
55
Tommy Potter
American musician
56
Monk Montgomery
American jazz bassist
57
Pete La Roca
American drummer
58
Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
59
Roy McCurdy
jazz drummer
60
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
61
Walter Perkins
American drummer
62
Henry Grimes
American musician
63
Joe Newman
American musician
64
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
65
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
66
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
67
Nelson Boyd
American musician
68
Butch Warren
American musician
69
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
70
Jimmy Rowser
American bassist
71
Stu Martin
American musician
72
Wade Legge
Jazz pianist and bassist
73
George Morrow
American jazz bassist
74
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
75
Louis Hayes
American drummer
76
Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
77
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
78
Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
