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Eddie Costa
American jazz musician; pianist and vibraphonist
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Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
2
Richard Wyands
hard bop pianist
3
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
4
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
5
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
6
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
7
Addison Farmer
American musician
8
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
9
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
10
Duke Jordan
American musician
11
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
12
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
13
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
14
Lucky Thompson
American saxophonist
15
Percy Heath
American musician
16
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
17
Pierre Michelot
French jazz double bassist
18
Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
19
Henri Renaud
French musician
20
Peck Morrison
American musician
21
Makanda Ken McIntyre
American jazz musician and composer
22
Walter Perkins
American drummer
23
Alan Dawson
American musician
24
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
25
Freddie Redd
American pianist
26
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
27
Wade Legge
Jazz pianist and bassist
28
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
29
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
30
Leonard Gaskin
American musician
31
Charlie Rouse
American musician
32
George Duvivier
American musician
33
Benny Powell
American jazz trombonist
34
Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
35
Don Abney
American musician (1923-2000)
36
David Amram
American musician
37
John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
38
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
39
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
40
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
41
Ray Copeland
American musician
42
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
43
Joe Cinderella
American music educator and jazz musician
44
Gordon Jenkins
American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s
45
Herbie Nichols
American musician
46
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
47
Don Butterfield
American musician
48
Al Grey
American jazz musician
49
Teddy Charles
American musician
50
Clifford Solomon
American musician
51
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
52
Manny Albam
musician and composer
53
Slide Hampton
American trombonist
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Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
55
Gus Johnson
American musician
56
Earl Coleman
American singer
57
Steven Bernstein
American trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer and bandleader
58
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
59
James Buffington
American musician
60
Dick Katz
American musician
61
Leonard Feather
British musician
62
Russell Garcia
American composer
63
Bob Brookmeyer
American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer
64
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
65
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
