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Bobby Previte
American drummer
1
Mark Helias
American musician
2
Michael Formanek
American jazz bassist
3
Matt Wilson
American jazz drummer
4
David Friedman
American jazz percussionist
5
Rabih Abou-Khalil
Lebanese musician
6
Ted Nash
American musician
7
Dewey Redman
American saxophonist
8
Kenny Werner
American jazz pianist, composer, and author
9
Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer
10
Maria Schneider
Jazz bandleader and composer
11
Paquito D'Rivera
Cuban musician
12
Abraham Burton
American saxophonist and bandleader
13
Craig Handy
American tenor saxophonist
14
Thomas Chapin
American musician
15
Anat Cohen
Israeli musician
16
Greg Osby
American musician
17
Geoffrey Keezer
American musician
18
Jim Anderson
Record producer, sound engineer and audio mixer
19
Benny Carter
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)
20
Howard Levy
American musician
21
Dave Liebman
American jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist
22
James Emery
American musician
23
Mark Dresser
American musician
24
Jan Garbarek
Norwegian saxophonist
25
Eddie Harris
American jazz musician, saxophonist
26
Laurindo Almeida
Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer
27
Jane Bunnett
Canadian musician
28
Tom Harrell
American composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist
29
Donny McCaslin
American musician
30
Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
31
Roland Alexander
musician
32
Ron Blake
Puerto Rican musician
33
Stephen Scott
American musician
34
Mike Richmond
American musician
35
Richard Elliot
Scottish musician
36
Chris Potter
American musician
37
Robert Thomas, Jr.
American musician
38
Dave Koz
American jazz saxophonist
39
Tim Garland
British musician
40
Joshua Redman
American jazz saxophonist and composer
41
Fred Hersch
American musician
42
Bob Dorough
American pianist and singer
43
Victor Lewis
American jazz drummer
44
Patrick Zimmerli
American musician and composer (born 1968)
45
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
46
Paul McCandless
American musician
47
Cameron Brown
American musician
48
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
49
Jim Pepper
Kaw-Muscogee Creek jazz musician
50
Vinny Golia
American musician
51
Meg Okura
Japanese musician
52
Ab Baars
Dutch tenor saxophonoist and clarinetist
53
Grover Washington, Jr.
American recording artist, jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist (1943-1999)
54
Gary Foster
Musician, Instrumentalist
