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Sonny Phillips
American musician
1
Johnny "Hammond" Smith
American organist
2
Melvin Sparks
American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist
3
Rusty Bryant
American musician
4
Don Patterson
American jazz organist
5
Richard Holmes
American organist
6
Leon Spencer
American jazz organist
7
Charles Earland
jazz musician
8
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
9
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
10
Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers
jazz band
11
Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
12
Houston Person
American saxophonist
13
Jimmy Ponder
American guitarist
14
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
15
Johnny Lytle
American jazz musician
16
Harold Vick
American musician
17
King Curtis
American saxophonist (1934-1971)
18
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
19
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
20
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
21
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
22
Seldon Powell
American musician
23
Lonnie Smith
American jazz musician
24
Teddy Edwards
American jazz tenor saxophonist
25
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
26
Trudy Pitts
African-American jazz musician
27
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
28
George Duvivier
American musician
29
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
30
Walter Perkins
American drummer
31
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
32
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
33
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
34
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
35
Joe Newman
American musician
36
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
37
Larry Young
American jazz musician
38
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
39
Hank Marr
American musician
40
Idris Muhammad
American drummer
41
Red Garland
American modern jazz pianist (1923-1984)
42
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
43
Horace Ott
American musician
44
Bob Bushnell
musician
45
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
46
Charlie Rouse
American musician
47
George Andrew Cables
American jazz pianist
48
Sonny Criss
American jazz musician
49
Reuben Wilson
American jazz musician
50
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
51
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
52
Snooky Young
American musician
53
The Outsiders
US band
54
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
55
Matthew Gee
American musician
56
Alan Dawson
American musician
57
George Coleman
American musician
58
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
59
Walter Davis
American pianist
60
Walter Booker
American jazz double-bassist
61
Bennie Green
American musician
62
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
63
Reunald Jones
American musician
64
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
65
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
66
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
67
Herbie Lovelle
American musician and actor (1924-2009)
68
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
69
Louis Hayes
American drummer
