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Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
1
Don Patterson
American jazz organist
2
Richard Holmes
American organist
3
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
4
Melvin Sparks
American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist
5
Harold Vick
American musician
6
Phil Upchurch
American jazz and R&B guitarist and bassist
7
Willis Jackson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
8
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
9
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
10
Jimmy Ponder
American guitarist
11
Seldon Powell
American musician
12
Montego Joe
Jamaican jazz musician and music educator
13
Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
14
George Coleman
American musician
15
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
16
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
17
Lonnie Smith
American jazz musician
18
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
19
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
20
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
21
King Curtis
American saxophonist (1934-1971)
22
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
23
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
24
Joe Newman
American musician
25
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
26
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
27
Johnny "Hammond" Smith
American organist
28
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
29
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
30
Bill Jennings
musical artist
31
Walter Perkins
American drummer
32
Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones
jazz musician
33
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
34
Bennie Green
American musician
35
Norman Simmons
pianist and arranger
36
Harold Ousley
American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist
37
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
38
Tommy Potter
American musician
39
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
40
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
41
Morris Jennings
American musician
42
George Duvivier
American musician
43
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
44
Billy Butler
American musician
45
Rusty Bryant
American musician
46
Charles Earland
jazz musician
47
Roland Hanna
American pianist
48
Larry Gales
American musician
49
Ben Tucker
American double-bassist
50
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
51
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
52
Gene Ludwig
American musician
53
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
54
Jon Faddis
Jazz trumpet player
55
Bob Bushnell
musician
56
Willie Bobo
American musician
57
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
58
Joe Benjamin
American musician
59
Joe Sample
American pianist
60
Larry Young
American jazz musician
61
Jimmie Smith
American jazz drummer
62
Louis Hayes
American drummer
63
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
64
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
65
Jerry Dodgion
American musician
