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Hank Mobley

American saxophonist

1

Javon Jackson

American musician

2

Doug Watkins

American jazz double bassist

3

Tina Brooks

American musician

4

Joe Harriott

Jamaican jazz musician

5

Mal Waldron

American jazz pianist and composer

6

Charles Mingus

American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader

7

LaMont Johnson

jazz pianist

8

Ronald Shannon Jackson

American drummer

9

Elvin Jones

American jazz drummer

10

Jimmy Garrison

American double bassist

11

Sonny Clark

American musician

12

Old and New Dreams

band that plays jazz

13

Gene Ammons

American jazz tenor saxophonist

14

Sonny Rollins

American jazz saxophonist and composer

15

Dewey Redman

American saxophonist

16

Horace Silver

American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)

17

Bill Hardman

American musician

18

Ornette Coleman

American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer

19

Pharoah Sanders

American jazz saxophonist

20

Harold McNair

Jamaican musician

21

Bill Saxton

American jazz musician

22

Eric Dolphy

American jazz musician

23

Marion Brown

American saxophonist

24

Charlie Haden

American jazz double bassist

25

John Jenkins

American jazz saxophonist

26

Walter Thomas

American saxophonist

27

Freddie Hubbard

American musician

28

James Blood Ulmer

American jazz and blues guitarist and singer

29

Paul Bley

Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist

30

Walter Norris

American pianist

31

Pat Smythe

British musician

32

Freddie Redd

American pianist

33

Harold Mabern

American pianist

34

Jack Walrath

Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader

35

Lee Konitz

American jazz musician

36

Johnny Griffin

American musician

37

Art Themen

English saxophonist

38

Don Pullen

American jazz pianist and organist

39

Lou Donaldson

American saxophonist

40

Alvin Tyler

American R&B and neo-bop jazz saxophonist and arranger

41

Max Roach

American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer

42

Dizzy Reece

Jamaican trumpeter