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Jimmie Smith
American jazz drummer
1
George Tucker
American musician
2
Pony Poindexter
American musician
3
Leo Wright
American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and flautist
4
Booker Ervin
American saxophonist
5
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
6
Lennie McBrowne
American musician
7
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
8
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
9
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
10
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
11
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
12
Shadow Wilson
American jazz drummer (1919-1959)
13
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
14
Freddie Green
American jazz guitarist
15
Bennie Green
American musician
16
Seldon Powell
American musician
17
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
18
Leonard Gaskin
American musician
19
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
20
Oliver Jackson
American drummer
21
Bobby Jones
American jazz saxophonist
22
Mel Lewis
American musician
23
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
24
Joe Newman
American musician
25
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
American vocalese trio
26
Charlie Rouse
American musician
27
Peck Morrison
American musician
28
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
29
Larry Gales
American musician
30
Annie Ross
British-American actress, singer and vocalist
31
Eugene Wright
American jazz musician
32
Jon Hendricks
American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian
33
Duke Jordan
American musician
34
Joe Benjamin
American musician
35
Willie Bobo
American musician
36
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
37
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
38
Larry Young
American jazz musician
39
Budd Johnson
American musician
40
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
41
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
42
Montego Joe
Jamaican jazz musician and music educator
43
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
44
Frank Rosolino
American jazz trombonist
45
Sonny Red
American musician
46
Herbie Lovelle
American musician and actor (1924-2009)
47
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
48
Jamil Nasser
American bassist
49
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
50
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
51
Walter Perkins
American drummer
52
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
53
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
54
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
55
George Duvivier
American musician
56
Stan Levey
American musician
57
Les Spann
American guitarist
58
Will Davis
Jazz pianist
59
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
60
James Buffington
American musician
61
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
62
Carmell Jones
American trumpeter
63
Connie Kay
American musician
64
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
65
Aaron Bell
American musician
66
Hal McKusick
American jazz flautist and saxophonist
67
Jimmy Nottingham
American musician
68
Joe Wilder
American trumpeter
69
Ben Tucker
American double-bassist
70
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
71
Specs Wright
American jazz drummer
72
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
73
Louis Hayes
American drummer
74
Benny Powell
American jazz trombonist
75
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
76
Gene Ramey
American musician
77
Gene Quill
American musician
78
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
79
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
80
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
81
Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
