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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
1
George Duvivier
American musician
2
Joe Newman
American musician
3
Al Grey
American jazz musician
4
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
5
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
6
Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
7
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
8
Budd Johnson
American musician
9
Eddie Jones
American musician
10
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
11
Hugh Lawson
American pianist
12
Freddie Green
American jazz guitarist
13
Snooky Young
American musician
14
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
15
Ernie Wilkins
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and music arranger
16
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
17
Jimmie Smith
American jazz drummer
18
Benny Powell
American jazz trombonist
19
Ed Shaughnessy
American jazz drummer
20
Bobby Durham
American musician
21
Joe Williams
American jazz singer
22
Henry Coker
American musician
23
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
24
Art Davis
American double-bassist
25
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
26
Tommy Potter
American musician
27
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
28
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
29
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
30
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
31
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
32
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
33
Ike Isaacs
American jazz bassist
34
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
35
Don Patterson
American jazz organist
36
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
37
King Curtis
American saxophonist (1934-1971)
38
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
39
Sonny Payne
American jazz drummer
40
Buster Cooper
American trombonist
41
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
42
Marshal Royal
American musician
43
Thornel Schwartz
American jazz guitarist
44
Duke Jordan
American musician
45
Richard Holmes
American organist
46
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
47
Al Aarons
American jazz trumpeter
48
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
49
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
50
Gene Ramey
American musician
51
Speedy Jones
American drummer
52
Joe Benjamin
American musician
53
Seldon Powell
American musician
54
Quentin Jackson
American musician
55
Gus Johnson
American musician
56
Åke Persson
Swedish musician
57
Buddy Tate
American musician
58
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
59
Houston Person
American saxophonist
60
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
61
Joe Mondragon
Woody Herman Band member
62
Joe Wilder
American trumpeter
63
J. C. Heard
American musician
64
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
65
Bill Doggett
American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist
66
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
67
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
68
Jimmy Rowles
American jazz pianist
69
Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
70
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
71
Bill Henderson
jazz vocalist and actor (1926-2016)
72
Bennie Green
American musician
73
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
74
George Coleman
American musician
75
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
76
Bill Hughes
jazz musician
77
Charles Thompson
American pianist
78
John Ore
American musician
79
Charlie Fowlkes
American musician
