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Jeff Lorber
American keyboardist, composer, and record producer
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Jessy J
American musician
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Yusef Lateef
American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
3
Stanley Clarke
American bassist, film composer and founding member of Return to Forever
4
Gary Meek
American musician
5
Richard Elliot
Scottish musician
6
Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
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Mike Stern
American jazz guitarist
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The Rippingtons
band
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Tim Ries
American jazz saxophonist
10
Jeff Kashiwa
American musician
11
Najee
American musician
12
Patrick Zimmerli
American musician and composer (born 1968)
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Fred Lipsius
American musician
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Jamey Aebersold
American musician
15
Brian Bromberg
American musician
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Ellery Eskelin
musician
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Jim Beard
American musician
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John Scofield
American jazz guitarist and composer
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Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
20
Jimmy Sturr
American musician
21
Jaki Byard
American musician
22
John McLaughlin
English guitarist, bandleader, and composer; founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
23
Joe Zawinul
Austrian composer and pianist
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Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Dave Koz
American jazz saxophonist
26
Michael Brecker
American musician
27
Everette Harp
American musician
28
Branford Marsalis
American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1960)
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Roomful of Blues
Musical band
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Bud Shank
American saxophonist and flautist
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Bill Cunliffe
American musician
32
Hal Galper
American pianist
33
Jonathan Fritzén
Swedish musician
34
Cannonball Adderley
American jazz alto saxophonist
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Jim Hall
American jazz guitarist, composer
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Joshua Redman
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Ken Vandermark
American jazz composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
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Brad Mehldau
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
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Chad Wackerman
American drummer
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Kendrick Scott
American musician
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James Morrison
Australian jazz musician
42
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
43
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
44
Murray McEachern
Canadian musician
45
Harold McNair
Jamaican musician
46
George Duke
American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer (1946-2013)
47
Lennie Tristano
American jazz pianist and composer
