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Josiah "Cie" Frazier
New Orleans jazz musician
1
Lee Collins
American musician
2
Lil Hardin Armstrong
American jazz musician
3
Billy Strayhorn
American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger
4
Bob French
American jazz drummer
5
Zutty Singleton
American jazz drummer
6
Richard M. Jones
American musician
7
Clark Gayton
American musician
8
Big Boy Goudie
American musician
9
Young Tuxedo Brass Band
American brass band
10
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
11
Isidore Barbarin
American jazz cornet
12
Tony Garnier
American musician
13
Horace Silver
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
14
Billie Pierce
American jazz pianist and singer
15
Wallace Davenport
American musician
16
Placide Adams
American jazz musician
17
Elmo Hope
American musician
18
Bill Evans
American jazz pianist
19
Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
20
Jaki Byard
American musician
21
Dave Bartholomew
American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger, and record producer
22
Phil Napoleon
American jazz musician
23
Alphonse Picou
African American jazz clarinetist
24
Geoffrey Keezer
American musician
25
Mary Lou Williams
American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
26
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
27
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
28
Stan Wrightsman
American pianist (1910-1975)
29
Louis Barbarin
American jazz drummer
30
Keith Ingham
British musician
31
George Guesnon
American musician
32
Dorothy Donegan
American jazz pianist
33
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
34
Joey Calderazzo
American jazz pianist
35
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
36
George Lewis
American musician
37
Lennie Tristano
American jazz pianist and composer
38
Cassandra Wilson
American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi
39
Nat Towles
jazz musician
40
Gloriana
band
41
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
42
J. B. Hutto
American blues musician
43
Jess Stacy
American musician
44
Brad Mehldau
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
45
Jutta Hipp
Jazz pianist (1925-2003)
46
Olga Konkova
Jazz pianist
47
The Boswell Sisters
Singing trio popular during the Jazz Age
48
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
49
Roland Hanna
American pianist
50
Sarah Vaughan
American jazz singer
51
Frank Kimbrough
American musician
52
Leyla McCalla
American musician, singer, songwriter and cellist
53
Mary Osborne
American musician
54
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
55
David Newton
British pianist and jazz musician
56
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
57
Steve Masakowski
musical artist
58
James Booker
American musician
59
Geri Allen
American composer and jazz pianist
