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Roy Brooks
American drummer
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Terry Pollard
jazz pianist prominent in the Detroit jazz scene of the 1940s and 1950s
2
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
3
Hugh Lawson
American pianist
4
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
5
Kirk Lightsey
American musician
6
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
7
George Coleman
American musician
8
Lex Humphries
American drummer
9
Albert Heath
American drummer
10
Walter Perkins
American drummer
11
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
12
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
13
Louis Hayes
American drummer
14
Ben Tucker
American double-bassist
15
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
16
Bob Brookmeyer
American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer
17
Richie Kamuca
American musician
18
Ernie Farrow
American musician
19
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
20
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
21
Quentin Jackson
American musician
22
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
23
Oliver Jackson
American drummer
24
Earl May
American musician
25
Yusef Lateef
American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
26
Dave Bailey
American drummer
27
Joe Newman
American musician
28
Dannie Richmond
American drummer
29
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
30
A. K. Salim
American musician
31
Rolf Ericson
Swedish musician
32
Jack Nimitz
American saxophonist
33
Conte Candoli
American musician
34
Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
35
James Buffington
American musician
36
Frank Strazzeri
American musician
37
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
38
Georges Arvanitas
Jazz pianist
39
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
40
Stu Williamson
American trumpeter
41
Wayne Andre
American trombonist
42
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
43
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
44
Johnny Griffin
American musician
45
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
46
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
47
Billy Butler
American musician
48
Duke Jordan
American musician
49
George Duvivier
American musician
50
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
51
J. C. Heard
American musician
52
Clifford Jarvis
American drummer
53
Dorothy Ashby
American jazz harpist
54
Charlie Mariano
American alto saxophonist
55
Leo Wright
American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and flautist
56
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
57
Victor Sproles
American musician
58
Johnny Coles
American trumpeter
59
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
60
Rudy Collins
American musician
61
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
62
Frank Capp
American musician
63
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
64
Don Butterfield
American musician
65
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
66
James Moody
American jazz musician
67
Frank Strozier
American saxophonist
68
Seldon Powell
American musician
69
Hal McKusick
American jazz flautist and saxophonist
