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Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
1
Harold Vick
American musician
2
Willis Jackson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
3
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
4
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
5
Walter Perkins
American drummer
6
George Coleman
American musician
7
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
8
Montego Joe
Jamaican jazz musician and music educator
9
Richard Holmes
American organist
10
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
11
Melvin Sparks
American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist
12
Don Patterson
American jazz organist
13
George Duvivier
American musician
14
Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
15
Joe Newman
American musician
16
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
17
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
18
Harold Land
American musician
19
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
20
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
21
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
22
King Curtis
American saxophonist (1934-1971)
23
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
24
Neal Creque
American musician
25
Norman Simmons
pianist and arranger
26
Teddy Edwards
American jazz tenor saxophonist
27
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
28
Houston Person
American saxophonist
29
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
30
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
31
Roy Brooks
American drummer
32
Junior Cook
American saxophonist
33
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
34
Leroy Vinnegar
American bassist
35
Booker Ervin
American saxophonist
36
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
37
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
38
Johnny "Hammond" Smith
American organist
39
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
40
Billy Butler
American musician
41
Rusty Bryant
American musician
42
Albert Heath
American drummer
43
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
44
Eric Dixon
American jazz musician
45
Larry Gales
American musician
46
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
47
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
48
Louis Hayes
American drummer
49
Mel Lewis
American musician
50
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
51
Charlie Rouse
American musician
52
Herbie Lovelle
American musician and actor (1924-2009)
53
Larry Young
American jazz musician
54
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
55
Willie Bobo
American musician
56
Ben Riley
American drummer
57
Leo Wright
American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and flautist
58
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
59
Charles Earland
jazz musician
60
Frank Butler
American jazz drummer
61
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
62
James Moody
American jazz musician
63
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
64
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
65
Dave Pike
American jazz musician
66
Billy Byers
American jazz trombonist and arranger (1927-1996)
67
Benny Bailey
American musician
68
Hugh Lawson
American pianist
69
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
70
Wilton Felder
American musician
71
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
72
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
73
Albert Dailey
American musician
74
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
75
Sonny Phillips
American musician
76
Walter Davis
American pianist
77
Eric Kloss
American musician
78
Freddie Waits
American musician
79
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
