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Rashied Ali
Rashied Ali
American jazz musician
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Sunny Murray
Sunny Murray
American drummer
2
Sirone
Sirone
American musician
3
Dave Burrell
Dave Burrell
American musician
4
Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
5
Frank Wright
Frank Wright
American jazz musician
6
Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler
American jazz saxophonist
7
Dewey Johnson
Dewey Johnson
American jazzman
8
Wilbur Ware
Wilbur Ware
American musician
9
Jimmy Garrison
Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
10
Donald Ayler
Donald Ayler
American musician
11
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
12
Reggie Workman
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
13
Dennis González
Dennis González
American musician
14
Paul Murphy
Paul Murphy
American musician
15
Lewis Worrell
Lewis Worrell
American musician
16
Jimmy Lyons
Jimmy Lyons
American jazz saxophonist
17
Stafford James
Stafford James
American musician
18
Denis Charles
Denis Charles
American jazz drummer
19
Milford Graves
Milford Graves
American jazz drummer and percussionist
20
Don Cherry
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
21
David Izenzon
David Izenzon
American musician
22
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
23
Roswell Rudd
Roswell Rudd
American trombonist
24
Michael Marcus
Michael Marcus
American musician
25
Charles Gayle
Charles Gayle
American jazz musician
26
Andrew Cyrille
Andrew Cyrille
American avant-garde jazz drummer
27
Calo Scott
Calo Scott
musical artist
28
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
29
Perry Robinson
Perry Robinson
American musician
30
Beaver Harris
Beaver Harris
American musician
31
Andrew Lamb
Andrew Lamb
American musician
32
Bob Thiele
Bob Thiele
American record producer, music executive (1922-1996)
33
Max Roach
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
34
Kenny Dorham
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
35
Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones
American jazz drummer
36
Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
37
Marilyn Crispell
Marilyn Crispell
American pianist
38
John Tchicai
John Tchicai
Danish free jazz saxophonist
39
Jimmy Giuffre
Jimmy Giuffre
American clarinet and saxophone player
40
Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
41
Burton Greene
Burton Greene
American musician
42
Sam Rivers
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
43
John Coltrane
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
44
Chico Hamilton
Chico Hamilton
American musician
45
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
free jazz drummer
46
Lennie McBrowne
Lennie McBrowne
American musician
47
Sonny Simmons
Sonny Simmons
American saxophonist
48
Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
49
Connie Kay
Connie Kay
American musician
50
Red Holloway
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
51
Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
52
Roy Haynes
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
53
Omer Avital
Omer Avital
Israeli musician
54
Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
55
Clark Terry
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
56
Art Taylor
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
57
Cedar Walton
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
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James Blood Ulmer
James Blood Ulmer
American jazz and blues guitarist and singer
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Zoot Sims
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
60
Tommy Flanagan
Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
61
Mat Walerian
Mat Walerian
jazz musician
62
Ray Bryant
Ray Bryant
American pianist
63
William Parker
William Parker
American jazz musician
64
Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
65
Don Butterfield
Don Butterfield
American musician
66
Alan Silva
Alan Silva
American musician
67
Sonny Clark
Sonny Clark
American musician
68
George Duvivier
George Duvivier
American musician
Henry Grimes
American musician

Henry Grimes

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Henry Grimes (November 3, 1935 – April 15, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist and violinist.

After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music scene by 1970. Grimes was often presumed to have died, but he was discovered in 2002 and returned to performing.