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Melvin Sparks
American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist
1
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
2
Jimmy McGriff
American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader (1936-2008)
3
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
4
Thornel Schwartz
American jazz guitarist
5
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
6
Organ trio
trio including a Hammond organ
7
George Coleman
American musician
8
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
9
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
10
Lonnie Smith
American jazz musician
11
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
12
Don Butterfield
American musician
13
Snooky Young
American musician
14
Tony Monaco
musical artist
15
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
16
Jerry Dodgion
American musician
17
Ben Tucker
American double-bassist
18
Bill Henderson
jazz vocalist and actor (1926-2016)
19
Joey DeFrancesco
American jazz musician
20
Larry Young
American jazz musician
21
Jack Nimitz
American saxophonist
22
Jimmy Ponder
American guitarist
23
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
24
George Duvivier
American musician
25
Mel Lewis
American musician
26
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
27
James Buffington
American musician
28
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
29
Bob Bushnell
musician
30
Bill Easley
American musician
31
James Moody
American jazz musician
32
Phil Upchurch
American jazz and R&B guitarist and bassist
33
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
34
Eddie Gomez
Puerto Rican bassist
35
Howard Johnson
American musician
36
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
37
Herbie Lovelle
American musician and actor (1924-2009)
38
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
39
Jimmy Owens
jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator
40
Seldon Powell
American musician
41
Dick Griffin
American musician
42
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
43
Buck Clarke
American jazz percussionist
44
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
45
Harold Vick
American musician
46
John Abercrombie
American jazz guitarist
47
Cecil McBee
American bassist
48
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
49
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
50
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
51
Larry Coryell
American guitarist
52
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
53
Billy Butler
American musician
54
Paul Humphrey
American musician
55
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
56
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
57
Gene Ludwig
American musician
58
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
59
Al Grey
American jazz musician
60
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
61
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
62
Julian Priester
American jazz trombonist
63
Warren Smith
American musician
64
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
65
Teddy Edwards
American jazz tenor saxophonist
66
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
67
Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
68
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
69
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
70
Russell Malone
jazz guitarist
71
Atsuko Hashimoto
Japanese musician
72
Louis Hayes
American drummer
73
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
74
Quentin Jackson
American musician
75
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
76
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
77
John Patton
American organist
78
Baby Face Willette
American jazz musician
79
Jimmy Woode
American bassist
80
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
81
Jimmy Rowles
American jazz pianist
82
Grady Tate
American jazz musician
