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Montego Joe
Jamaican jazz musician and music educator
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Gene Quill
American musician
2
Chuck Rainey
American bass guitar session musician
3
Eric Gale
American musician
4
Don Elliott
jazz musician
5
James Moody
American jazz musician
6
Gary McFarland
American jazz musician
7
Billy Butler
American musician
8
Dave Frishberg
American musician
9
Johnny "Hammond" Smith
American organist
10
Jay Berliner
American musician
11
Marvin Stamm
American trumpeter
12
Brandee Younger
American Harpist
13
Bob Dorough
American pianist and singer
14
Billy Cobham
American jazz drummer
15
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
16
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
17
Gene Orloff
American musician
18
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
19
George Adams
musician
20
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
21
Dennis Mackrel
jazz musician
22
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
23
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
24
Herbie Lovelle
American musician and actor (1924-2009)
25
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
26
Dave Holland
British musician
27
Sonny Fortune
American saxophonist
28
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
29
Joe Beck
American musician
30
Miles Mosley
American musician
31
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
32
Eddie Bert
American musician
33
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
34
Larry Bunker
American musician
35
Barry Altschul
American drummer
36
John Robinson
American drummer (*1954)
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Ron Carter
American jazz bassist, cellist, and composer
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Louis Hayes
American drummer
39
Sam Woodyard
American jazz drummer
40
Cal Tjader
American Latin jazz musician, recording artist
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Todd La Torre
American singer and drummer
42
Frank Rehak
American musician
43
Johnny Griffin
American musician
44
Bill Goodwin
American jazz drummer
45
George Benson
American recording artist, guitarist, singer, and songwriter
46
Armando Peraza
Cuban percussionist
47
Robert Glasper
American jazz pianist, composer and record producer
48
Donald Bailey
American jazz drummer
49
Carlos "Patato" Valdes
Conga player
50
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
American musician
51
Johnny Lytle
American jazz musician
52
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
53
Jimmy Smith
American jazz musician
54
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
55
Pieces of a Dream
American musical group
56
Parliament-Funkadelic
American band
57
Cecil McBee
American bassist
58
Dave Burrell
American musician
59
Snooky Young
American musician
60
Emil Richards
American musician
61
Gene Ludwig
American musician
62
Kurt Rosenwinkel
American jazz guitarist and keyboardist
63
Alan Dawson
American musician
64
Big Sugar
Canadian band
65
Steve Wilson
American jazz musician
66
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
67
Mark Murphy
American singer
68
Quincy Jones
American record producer
69
Joe Harriott
Jamaican jazz musician
70
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
71
Specs Powell
American musician
72
Bobby Timmons
American pianist
73
Jack DeJohnette
American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer
