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Takeo Moriyama
Japanese drummer (1945-)
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Masaru Sato
Japanese composer
2
Noriyuki Asakura
Japanese music composer and vocalist
3
Dave Douglas
American jazz trumpeter
4
Takashi Kako
Japanese composer
5
Yasuhiko Fukuda
Japanese composer
6
Roscoe Mitchell
American jazz musician
7
Andreas Ulvo
Norwegian musician
8
Takashi Furuya
Japanese jazz saxophonist and vocalist
9
Neal Hefti
American jazz trumpeter, composer, songwriter, and arranger (1928-2008)
10
Hank Jones
American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010)
11
Sadao Watanabe
Japanese jazz saxophonist, composer, bandmaster (1933-)
12
Michael Mantler
Austrian musician
13
Edward Wilkerson
American bandleader
14
Yōsuke Yamashita
Japanese jazz pianist, composer, author (1942-)
15
Bob Northern
American jazz musician
16
Tōru Takemitsu
Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory (1930-1996)
17
Fumio Karashima
Japanese jazz pianist, composer (1948-2017)
18
Theo Bleckmann
German composer and vocalist
19
Bob Curnow
musician
20
Jan Dumée
Dutch musician
21
Gavin Bryars
British musician
22
Larry Stabbins
British musician
23
Paul Motian
American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer
24
Oliver Nelson
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (1932-1975)
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Bob Florence
American jazz arranger and pianist
26
Ryo Kawasaki
Japanese jazz guitarist (1947-2020)
27
Gil Evans
American pianist
28
Warren Smith
American musician
29
Clare Fischer
American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
30
Philippe Saisse
French musician
31
Mark Izu
American musician
32
Joseph Jarman
American jazz musician
33
Jim Hall
American jazz guitarist, composer
34
John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
35
Alec Wilder
American composer, lyricist
36
Ken Vandermark
American jazz composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
37
Charles Davis
American musician
38
Dave Holland
British musician
39
Alan Shulman
American composer and cellist
40
Paul Lytton
British musician
41
Anthony Coleman
American musician
42
Fred Lonberg-Holm
American musician
43
John Serry Jr.
American pianist and composer; son of John Serry, Sr.
44
Leszek Żądło
Polish jazz musician
45
Derek Bailey
British guitarist
46
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
47
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
48
Billy Childs
American jazz pianist
49
Peter Appleyard
Canadian vibraphonist
50
Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
51
Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
52
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
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Bobby Previte
American drummer
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Tom Harrell
American composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist
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Muhal Richard Abrams
American musician
56
Miljenko Prohaska
Croatian composer and conductor
57
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
58
Peter Kowald
German free jazz double bassist and tubist
59
Stafford James
American musician
