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Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
1
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
2
Herb Ellis
American jazz guitarist
3
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
4
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
5
Budd Johnson
American musician
6
Joe Newman
American musician
7
George Duvivier
American musician
8
Taft Jordan
Jazz trumpeter
9
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
10
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
11
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
12
Norman Granz
American jazz musician and producer
13
Danny Bank
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist
14
Buddy Tate
American musician
15
Conte Candoli
American musician
16
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
17
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
18
Milt Jackson
American musician
19
Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
20
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
21
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
22
Keg Johnson
American jazz trombonists
23
Walter Bishop Jr.
American jazz pianist, recording artist
24
Jimmy Hamilton
American jazz musician
25
Specs Wright
American jazz drummer
26
Ed Shaughnessy
American jazz drummer
27
Emmett Berry
American musician
28
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
29
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
30
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
31
Gene Ramey
American musician
32
Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
33
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
34
Percy Heath
American musician
35
Hilton Jefferson
American jazz saxophonist
36
Alvin Stoller
American musician
37
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
38
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
39
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
40
Mel Lewis
American musician
41
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
42
Panama Francis
American musician
43
Ernie Wilkins
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and music arranger
44
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
45
Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
46
Pierre Michelot
French jazz double bassist
47
Doc Cheatham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader
48
Willie Smith
American musician
49
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
50
Matthew Gee
American musician
51
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
52
Lucky Thompson
American saxophonist
53
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
54
Flip Phillips
American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player
55
Al Grey
American jazz musician
56
Wade Legge
Jazz pianist and bassist
57
Chico O'Farrill
Cuban composer and musician
58
Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
59
Gus Johnson
American musician
60
Frank Rosolino
American jazz trombonist
61
Barney Kessel
American jazz guitarist
62
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
63
A. K. Salim
American musician
64
Leroy Vinnegar
American bassist
65
Al McKibbon
American musician
66
Henry Coker
American musician
67
Shad Collins
American musician
68
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
69
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
70
Walter Davis
American pianist
71
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
72
Buster Harding
Canadian-born American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
73
Jimmy Crawford
American musician (1910-1980)
74
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
75
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
76
Joe Benjamin
American musician
77
Joe Gordon
American trumpeter
78
Gene Krupa
drummer, composer, bandleader
79
Buddy Rich
American jazz drummer and bandleader
80
Jon Faddis
Jazz trumpet player
81
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
82
Red Callender
American string bass and tuba player, member of The Wrecking Crew
83
Jimmy Owens
jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator
84
Johnny Hodges
American alto saxophonist
85
Claude Hopkins
American pianist
86
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
