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Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
1
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
2
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
3
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
4
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
5
Johnny Griffin
American musician
6
Charles Thompson
American pianist
7
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
8
Harold Land
American musician
9
Tate Houston
American saxophonist
10
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
11
Seldon Powell
American musician
12
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
13
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
14
Charlie Rouse
American musician
15
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
16
Michael Brecker
American musician
17
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
18
Harold Mabern
American pianist
19
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
20
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
21
Ben Riley
American drummer
22
Earl May
American musician
23
Leroy Vinnegar
American bassist
24
Don Lamond
American musician
25
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
26
Herb Geller
American saxophonist (1928-2013)
27
Charles Lloyd
American jazz musician
28
John Hardee
American musician
29
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
30
Albert Heath
American drummer
31
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
32
James Buffington
American musician
33
Old and New Dreams
band that plays jazz
34
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
35
Art Davis
American double-bassist
36
Bernie Glow
American musician
37
John Gross
American saxophone, flute and clarinet player
38
Dolo Coker
American musician
39
Sonny Red
American musician
40
Frank Lowe
American jazz saxophonist
41
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
42
Lorraine Geller
American musician
43
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
44
Matthew Gee
American musician
45
Dewey Redman
American saxophonist
46
Victor Feldman
English recording artist; jazz musician, vibraphonist
47
Earl Harvin
American musician
48
Budd Johnson
American musician
49
Don Butterfield
American musician
50
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
51
Gene Harris
American pianist
52
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
53
Earl Coleman
American singer
54
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
55
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
56
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
57
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
58
Bobby Hutcherson
American jazz vibraphone and marimba player
59
Ed Blackwell
American musician
60
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
61
Don Elliott
jazz musician
62
Bill Ramsay
American jazz saxophonist & bandleader
63
Milt Jackson
American musician
64
Blue Mitchell
American musician
65
John Ore
American musician
66
Ahmed Abdul-Malik
bassist
