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Mary Halvorson
US avant-garde jazz guitarist
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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
