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Jaribu Shahid
American jazz bassist
1
Tani Tabbal
American jazz drummer
2
Roscoe Mitchell
American jazz musician
3
Phillip Wilson
American drummer (1941-1992)
4
Lester Bowie
American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)
5
Thurman Barker
American jazz drummer
6
Joseph Jarman
American jazz musician
7
John Purcell
American jazz saxophonist
8
Bobby Naughton
American musician
9
Steve McCall
American jazz drummer
10
Andrew Cyrille
American avant-garde jazz drummer
11
Henry Threadgill
American jazz musician
12
George Lewis
composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar
13
Kenny Wheeler
Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
14
Art Ensemble of Chicago
American avant-garde group
15
Hamiet Bluiett
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer
16
Baikida Carroll
American musician
17
Muhal Richard Abrams
American musician
18
Craig S. Harris
American musician
19
Vincent Chancey
American musician
20
Marilyn Crispell
American pianist
21
Michael Philip Mossman
American musician
22
Wadada Leo Smith
American jazz trumpeter and composer
23
J. D. Parran
American musician
24
Steve Coleman
American saxophonist
25
Dave Holland
British musician
26
Don Moye
American percussionist
27
Douglas Ewart
American musician
28
John Lindberg
American musician
29
Ray Anderson
American trombonist/jazz/trumpet player
30
Tomeka Reid
American jazz musician
31
Eddie Allen
jazz musician
32
Mars Williams
American musician
33
James Emery
American musician
34
James Blood Ulmer
American jazz and blues guitarist and singer
35
Arthur Blythe
American musician
36
Oliver Lake
American musician
37
William Parker
American jazz musician
38
Ralph Peterson, Jr.
American jazz drummer
39
Joe Daley
American educator, jazz musician, composer and arranger who plays tuba, trombone and euphonium
40
Leroy Jenkins
composer and Avant-garde Jazz violinist and violist
41
Frank Lacy
American musician
42
James Newton
American flautist, composer, and conductor
43
Evan Parker
English saxophonist
44
Dave Burrell
American musician
45
Malachi Favors
American bassist
46
Bobby Bradford
American musician
47
Nicole Mitchell
American jazz flutist
48
Marty Ehrlich
American musician
49
Charles "Bobo" Shaw
American musician
50
Kahil El'Zabar
American musician
51
Barry Altschul
American drummer
52
Thomas Heberer
German jazz musician
53
Enrico Rava
Italian trumpeter
54
Michael Mantler
Austrian musician
55
Julian Priester
American jazz trombonist
56
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
American saxophonist
57
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer, and philosopher
58
Ray Drummond
American musician
59
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
60
Bernard Vitet
French trumpeter
61
James Carter
American musician
62
Gianluigi Trovesi
Italian musician
63
Vijay Iyer
American jazz musician
64
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
65
Gerald Cleaver
American musician
