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Giovanni Hidalgo
Puerto Rican percussionist and music educator
1
Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Cuban pianist
2
Bobby Sanabria
American musician
3
Mario Rivera
Dominican musician, composer and arranger
4
Paquito D'Rivera
Cuban musician
5
Mario Bauzá Cárdenas
American musician
6
Claudio Roditi
Brazilian musician
7
Arturo Sandoval
Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer
8
Horacio Hernandez
Cuban musician
9
Machito
Latin jazz musician
10
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
11
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
12
Michael Philip Mossman
American musician
13
Jerry Gonzalez
American musician
14
Steve Berrios
American drummer
15
Mongo Santamaría
Cuban musician
16
Conrad Herwig
American musician
17
Tito Puente
American musician, songwriter and record producer (1923-2000)
18
Chano Pozo
Cuban musician
19
Hilton Ruiz
American musician of Puerto Rican descent
20
Michel Camilo
Dominican Grammy-award winning pianist and composer (born 1954)
21
Chico O'Farrill
Cuban composer and musician
22
Lewis Nash
American drummer
23
A. K. Salim
American musician
24
Carlos "Patato" Valdes
Conga player
25
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
26
Francisco Aguabella
Cuban master percussionist
27
Francisco Mela
Cuban percussionist
28
Roberta Gambarini
Italian singer
29
Poncho Sanchez
American musician
30
Bob Stewart
American musician
31
Cándido Camero
Cuban percussionist
32
Chano Domínguez
Spanish jazz musician
33
Sayyd Abdul Al-Khabyyr
musician
34
Gary Smulyan
Jazz baritone saxophonist
35
Charnett Moffett
American musician
36
Robby Ameen
American musician
37
Chucho Valdés
Cuban musician
38
James Moody
American jazz musician
39
Sonny Fortune
American saxophonist
40
Cachao
Cuban musician
41
Hilario Durán
Cuban musician
42
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
43
Kenny Washington
American musician
44
John Adriano Acea
Jazz pianist
45
Luis Bonilla
American musician
46
Bob Northern
American jazz musician
47
Dennis Mackrel
jazz musician
48
Art Davis
American double-bassist
49
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
50
Arturo O'Farrill
Cuban-American musician
51
Lex Humphries
American drummer
52
Jeff "Tain" Watts
American musician
