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John Tchicai
Danish free jazz saxophonist
1
Ted Curson
Jazz trumpeter
2
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
3
Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
4
Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
5
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
6
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
7
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
8
Lewis Worrell
American musician
9
Archie Shepp
American jazz musician
10
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
11
Charles Greenlee
American musician
12
Herbie Lewis
American musician
13
Beaver Harris
American musician
14
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
15
Roswell Rudd
American trombonist
16
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
17
Clifford Thornton
American musician
18
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
19
Clifford Jarvis
American drummer
20
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
21
Howard Johnson
American musician
22
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
23
Johnny Coles
American trumpeter
24
Eric Dolphy
American jazz musician
25
Jimmy Woode
American bassist
26
Tommy Turrentine
American swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer
27
Bobby Few
American musician
28
Tete Montoliu
Spanish jazz musician and pianist (1933-1997)
29
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
30
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
31
Makanda Ken McIntyre
American jazz musician and composer
32
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
33
George Tucker
American musician
34
Charles Davis
American musician
35
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
36
George Duvivier
American musician
37
Bill Dixon
American musician
38
Clarence Sharpe
39
Pierre Michelot
French jazz double bassist
40
Bernard Lubat
French jazz musician
41
Marion Brown
American saxophonist
42
Albert Heath
American drummer
43
Eddie Preston
American musician
44
Mickey Tucker
American pianist
45
Charles Moffett
American drummer
46
Don Butterfield
American musician
47
Cecil McBee
American bassist
48
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
49
Sunny Murray
American drummer
50
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
51
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
52
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
American musician
53
Ronnie Boykins
American musician
54
Dave Burrell
American musician
55
Michael White
American violinist
56
Joe Chambers
American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer
57
Jamil Nasser
American bassist
58
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
59
David Izenzon
American musician
60
Benny Golson
American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger (born 1929)
61
Karl Berger
German jazz vibraphonist, pianist and composer
62
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
63
Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
64
Rolf Ericson
Swedish musician
65
Donald Garrett
American musician and clarinetist
66
Roland Hanna
American pianist
67
Bob Bushnell
musician
68
Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
69
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
70
Mel Lewis
American musician
71
Bob Northern
American jazz musician
72
Bill Perkins
American jazz musician
73
Sirone
American musician
