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Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
1
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
2
Richard Holmes
American organist
3
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
4
Jimmy Ponder
American guitarist
5
Seldon Powell
American musician
6
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
7
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
8
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
9
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
10
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
11
Don Patterson
American jazz organist
12
George Duvivier
American musician
13
Houston Person
American saxophonist
14
Melvin Sparks
American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist
15
Warren Smith
American musician
16
Jimmy McGriff
American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader (1936-2008)
17
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
18
Walter Booker
American jazz double-bassist
19
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
20
Billy Butler
American musician
21
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
22
George Coleman
American musician
23
Albert Heath
American drummer
24
Montego Joe
Jamaican jazz musician and music educator
25
Joe Newman
American musician
26
Harold Ousley
American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist
27
Bob Bushnell
musician
28
Ben Tucker
American double-bassist
29
Roy Brooks
American drummer
30
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
31
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
32
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
33
Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
34
Roland Hanna
American pianist
35
Mel Lewis
American musician
36
Freddie Waits
American musician
37
Horace Ott
American musician
38
Chuck Rainey
American bass guitar session musician
39
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
40
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
41
Wayne Andre
American trombonist
42
Hugh Lawson
American pianist
43
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
44
Idris Muhammad
American drummer
45
Larry Young
American jazz musician
46
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
47
Everett Barksdale
American jazz guitarist
48
Harold Land
American musician
49
Charles Earland
jazz musician
50
Cornell Dupree
American R&B/soul jazz guitarist
51
Eddie Gladden
American musician
52
Louis Hayes
American drummer
53
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
54
Ray Mantilla
American jazz drummer
55
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
56
Oscar Brashear
American trumpeter
57
Neal Creque
American musician
58
Jimmie Smith
American jazz drummer
59
Walter Perkins
American drummer
60
John Patton
American organist
61
Thornel Schwartz
American jazz guitarist
62
Walter Bishop Jr.
American jazz pianist, recording artist
63
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
64
Paul Humphrey
American musician
65
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
66
Lonnie Smith
American jazz musician
67
Jerry Dodgion
American musician
68
Cecil Bridgewater
American jazz trumpeter
69
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
70
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
71
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
72
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
73
Marvin Stamm
American trumpeter
74
Junior Cook
American saxophonist
75
Cecil McBee
American bassist
76
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
77
Bill Hardman
American musician
78
Jack Nimitz
American saxophonist
79
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
80
Rufus Reid
American musician
81
Percy Heath
American musician
82
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
83
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
