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Melvin Sparks
American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist
1
Jimmy Ponder
American guitarist
2
Etta Jones
American jazz singer
3
Charles Earland
jazz musician
4
George Coleman
American musician
5
Cecil Brooks III
American musician
6
Eric Alexander
American saxophonist
7
Harold Vick
American musician
8
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
9
Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones
jazz musician
10
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
11
Norman Simmons
pianist and arranger
12
Richard Wyands
hard bop pianist
13
Johnny "Hammond" Smith
American organist
14
Bob deVos
American musician
15
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
16
George Duvivier
American musician
17
Walter Perkins
American drummer
18
Don Patterson
American jazz organist
19
Idris Muhammad
American drummer
20
Paul Bollenback
American musician
21
Richard Holmes
American organist
22
Benny Green
American musician
23
Ben Riley
American drummer
24
Kenny Washington
American musician
25
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
26
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
27
Bill Easley
American musician
28
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
29
Johnny Coles
American trumpeter
30
Randy Johnston
American musician
31
Winard Harper
Jazz drummer
32
Rodney Jones
American jazz guitarist and bassist, born 30 August 1956 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
33
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
34
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
35
Sonny Phillips
American musician
36
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
37
Jerry Dodgion
American musician
38
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
39
Seldon Powell
American musician
40
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
41
Thornel Schwartz
American jazz guitarist
42
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
43
Al Foster
American musician
44
Lonnie Smith
American jazz musician
45
Ron Carter
American jazz bassist, cellist, and composer
46
Roland Hanna
American pianist
47
Horace Ott
American musician
48
Bob Bushnell
musician
49
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
50
Billy Butler
American musician
51
Ray Drummond
American musician
52
Willis Jackson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
53
John Patton
American organist
54
Barbara Morrison
American singer
55
Rufus Reid
American musician
56
Cecil Bridgewater
American jazz trumpeter
57
Eddie Allen
jazz musician
58
Bill Hardman
American musician
59
Larry Young
American jazz musician
60
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
61
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
62
Junior Cook
American saxophonist
63
Albert Heath
American drummer
64
Johnny Lytle
American jazz musician
65
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
66
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
67
Mike LeDonne
American musician
68
Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
69
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
70
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
71
Joe Newman
American musician
72
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
73
Paul Humphrey
American musician
74
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
75
Arnett Cobb
American jazz tenor saxophonist
76
Jon Faddis
Jazz trumpet player
77
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
78
Woody Shaw
American musician
79
Jack Walrath
Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader
80
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
81
Teddy Edwards
American jazz tenor saxophonist
