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Mary Halvorson

US avant-garde jazz guitarist

1

Wadada Leo Smith

American jazz trumpeter and composer

2

Tomeka Reid

American jazz musician

3

Evan Parker

English saxophonist

4

Chris Speed

American musician

5

Derek Bailey

British guitarist

6

Sylvie Courvoisier

Swiss musician

7

Mark Dresser

American musician

8

Anthony Braxton

American musician, composer, and philosopher

9

Guy Klucevsek

American musician

10

Marc Ribot

American musician

11

Ava Mendoza

American musician

12

Jon Irabagon

American musician

13

Wayne Horvitz

American musician

14

John Zorn

American composer, saxophonist and bandleader

15

George Lewis

composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar

16

Mario Pavone

American musician

17

Mike Pride

American drummer

18

Masada

band

19

Tim Berne

American jazz saxophonist

20

Tyshawn Sorey

American composer and multi-instrumentalist

21

Trevor Dunn

American bassist and composer

22

Mark Whitecage

American saxophonist

23

Anthony Coleman

American musician

24

Fred Lonberg-Holm

American musician

25

Jessica Lurie

musician, composer, saxophonist,

26

Leroy Jenkins

composer and Avant-garde Jazz violinist and violist

27

Bill Ware

American musician

28

Erik Friedlander

American musician

29

Zeena Parkins

American musician

30

Wu Fei

Chinese singer

31

Gerry Hemingway

American drummer

32

John Medeski

American jazz keyboards player and composer

33

Brian Chase

American drummer

34

Taylor Ho Bynum

American musician

35

Barry Altschul

American drummer

36

Bobby Previte

American drummer

37

Bobby Naughton

American musician

38

Ralph Towner

American musician

39

Burton Greene

American musician

40

J. D. Parran

American musician

41

Richard Teitelbaum

American composer

42

Karl Berger

German jazz vibraphonist, pianist and composer

43

Tom Rainey

American jazz drummer

44

Weasel Walter

American composer

45

Steven Bernstein

American trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer and bandleader

46

Susie Ibarra

American musician

47

Marilyn Crispell

American pianist

48

David Krakauer

American clarinetist

49

Guillermo E. Brown

musician

50

Massacre

American experimental rock band

51

Michiyo Yagi

Japanese musician

52

Gerald Cleaver

American musician

53

Jim Pugliese

American musician

54

Eyvind Kang

American musician

55

Sonny Simmons

American saxophonist

56

John Lindberg

American musician

57

Ken Filiano

American musician

58

Nicole Mitchell

American jazz flutist

59

Thomas Chapin

American musician

60

Gavin Bryars

British musician

61

Han Bennink

Dutch musician

62

Roscoe Mitchell

American jazz musician

63

Phillip Wilson

American drummer (1941-1992)

64

Michael Bisio

American jazz musician

65

David Breskin

American poet and record producer

66

Vinny Golia

American musician

67

Kris Davis

Canadian jazz pianist and composer

68

Fay Victor

musical artist

69

Mark Helias

American musician

70

Misha Mengelberg

Dutch composer and jazz pianist

71

Jamie Saft

American keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer

72

Craig Taborn

American musician

73

Ethel

string quartet