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Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
1
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
2
Matthew Gee
American musician
3
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
4
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
5
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
6
Tommy Potter
American musician
7
Walter Perkins
American drummer
8
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
9
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
10
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
11
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
12
Harold Vick
American musician
13
Joe Newman
American musician
14
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
15
Willis Jackson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
16
Lucky Thompson
American saxophonist
17
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
18
George Duvivier
American musician
19
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
20
Eugene Wright
American jazz musician
21
Budd Johnson
American musician
22
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
23
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
24
Patti Bown
American musician
25
George Freeman
American musician
26
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
27
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
28
Seldon Powell
American musician
29
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
30
Harold Ousley
American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist
31
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
32
Leo Parker
American musician
33
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
34
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
35
George Barrow
American jazz musician
36
Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
37
Don Patterson
American jazz organist
38
Ed Shaughnessy
American jazz drummer
39
Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
40
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
41
Leroy Vinnegar
American bassist
42
Johnny Griffin
American musician
43
Billy Butler
American musician
44
Leonard Gaskin
American musician
45
Howard McGhee
American trumpeter
46
Tom Archia
American musician
47
Louis Hayes
American drummer
48
Walter Bishop Jr.
American jazz pianist, recording artist
49
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
50
Richard Wyands
hard bop pianist
51
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
52
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
53
Richard Holmes
American organist
54
Joe Benjamin
American musician
55
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
56
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
57
Red Garland
American modern jazz pianist (1923-1984)
58
Hampton Hawes
American jazz pianist
59
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
60
Teddy Edwards
American jazz tenor saxophonist
61
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
