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John Patton
American organist
1
Baby Face Willette
American jazz musician
2
Organ trio
trio including a Hammond organ
3
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
4
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
5
Cassandra Wilson
American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi
6
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
7
Freddie Roach
American organist
8
Harold Vick
American musician
9
Grant Green
American jazz guitarist and composer
10
Joe Sample
American pianist
11
James Blood Ulmer
American jazz and blues guitarist and singer
12
Jimmy McGriff
American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader (1936-2008)
13
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
14
Arthur Adams
American blues musician
15
James Moody
American jazz musician
16
George Coleman
American musician
17
Junior Walker
American saxophonist
18
Teddy Edwards
American jazz tenor saxophonist
19
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
20
Charles Earland
jazz musician
21
Jimmy Smith
American jazz musician
22
Houston Person
American saxophonist
23
Najee
American musician
24
Z. Z. Hill
American blues singer
25
Jymie Merritt
American bassist
26
Etta Jones
American jazz singer
27
Gene Ludwig
American musician
28
Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
29
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
30
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
31
David T. Walker
American musician
32
Hank Crawford
American saxophonist (1934-2009)
33
Wilton Felder
American musician
34
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
35
Percy Heath
American musician
36
Richard Holmes
American organist
37
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
38
Charley Patton
American Delta blues musician
39
Reuben Wilson
American jazz musician
40
Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers
soul band from Vancouver, British Columbia
41
Bukka White
American Delta blues guitarist and singer
42
Buddy Terry
American musician
43
Lucky Thompson
American saxophonist
