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Death Ambient
American experimental and ambient music trio
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The Rocksteady Seven
American Ska and Jazz band
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Susie Ibarra
American musician
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Z'EV
American percussionist
4
Massacre
American experimental rock band
5
Milford Graves
American jazz drummer and percussionist
6
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
7
William Winant
American percussionist
8
Dafnis Prieto
Cuban composer, educator and jazz drummer
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Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
10
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
11
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
12
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
13
Chris Brown
American composer, pianist and electronic musician
14
Dave Douglas
American jazz trumpeter
15
Doane Perry
American musician
16
Weather Report
American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s
17
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
18
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
19
Hamid Drake
American musician
20
Ellery Eskelin
musician
21
Ikue Mori
Japanese drummer
22
John Medeski
American jazz keyboards player and composer
23
Paul Wertico
American drummer
24
Masada
band
25
Tyshawn Sorey
American composer and multi-instrumentalist
26
Billy Martin
US jazz drummer
27
Shelly Manne
American jazz drummer
28
Francisco Mela
Cuban percussionist
29
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
30
Anthony Coleman
American musician
31
Mickey Hart
American musician
32
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
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Kato Hideki
Japanese musician
34
Dana Hall
Jazz drummer
35
Robert Dick
American flutist and composer
36
David Virelles
pianist
37
Rich Halley
American saxophonist
38
Sheila E.
American singer and percussionist
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Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
40
Marc Ribot
American musician
41
Jamie Muir
British musician
42
Charnett Moffett
American musician
43
Lukas Ligeti
composer
44
John McLaughlin
English guitarist, bandleader, and composer; founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
45
Miya Masaoka
American composer
46
Cyro Baptista
Brazilian musician
47
Jack DeJohnette
American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer
48
Trilok Gurtu
Indian musician
49
Dave Holland
British musician
50
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
51
Steve Coleman
American saxophonist
52
Don Moye
American percussionist
53
Glenn Kotche
American musician
54
Armando Peraza
Cuban percussionist
55
Hasidic New Wave
band
56
Badal Roy
musician
57
Craig Taborn
American musician
58
Vijay Iyer
American jazz musician
59
Scott Amendola
musician
60
Miguel Zenón
Puerto Rican alto saxophonist
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Bobby Previte
American drummer
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Trichy Sankaran
Canadian musician
