0
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
