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Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
1
Freddie Green
American jazz guitarist
2
Major Holley
American jazz upright bassist
3
Joe Newman
American musician
4
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
5
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
6
Tommy Bryant
American musician
7
Budd Johnson
American musician
8
Herb Ellis
American jazz guitarist
9
Al McKibbon
American musician
10
George Duvivier
American musician
11
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
12
Sam Woodyard
American jazz drummer
13
Joe Benjamin
American musician
14
Reunald Jones
American musician
15
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
16
Bennie Green
American musician
17
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
18
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
19
J. C. Heard
American musician
20
Matthew Gee
American musician
21
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
22
Quentin Jackson
American musician
23
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
24
Shadow Wilson
American jazz drummer (1919-1959)
25
Eddie Jones
American musician
26
Gene Ramey
American musician
27
Nat Pierce
American musician
28
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
29
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
30
Emmett Berry
American musician
31
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
32
Ed Shaughnessy
American jazz drummer
33
Russell Procope
American musician
34
Alvin Stoller
American musician
35
Aaron Bell
American musician
36
Connie Kay
American musician
37
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
38
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
39
Milt Jackson
American musician
40
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
41
Gus Johnson
American musician
42
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
43
Henry Coker
American musician
44
Pete Brown
American musician
45
Jimmy Hamilton
American jazz musician
46
Mel Lewis
American musician
47
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
48
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
49
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
50
James Buffington
American musician
51
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
52
Bobby Donaldson
American musician
53
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
54
George Coleman
American musician
55
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
56
Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
57
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
58
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
59
Dave Bailey
American drummer
60
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
61
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
62
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
63
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
64
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
65
Percy Heath
American musician
66
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
67
Joe Wilder
American trumpeter
68
Herbie Lovelle
American musician and actor (1924-2009)
69
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
70
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
71
Eddie Locke
American musician
72
Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
73
Charlie Fowlkes
American musician
74
Bill Graham
American musician
75
Walter Page
American jazz musician
76
Tiny Grimes
American jazz and R&B guitarist
77
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
78
Snooky Young
American musician
79
Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
80
Idris Muhammad
American drummer
81
Specs Wright
American jazz drummer
82
Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
