0
Roy McCurdy
jazz drummer
1
Cannonball Adderley
American jazz alto saxophonist
2
Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
3
Walter Booker
American jazz double-bassist
4
Weather Report
American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s
5
Louis Hayes
American drummer
6
David Axelrod
American musician, record producer, composer and arranger
7
Dom Um Romão
Brazilian jazz drummer, percussionist
8
Manolo Badrena
Puerto Rican musician
9
Scott Henderson
jazz fusion and blues guitarist
10
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
11
Airto Moreira
Brazilian musician
12
Gerald Veasley
American musician
13
Miroslav Vitouš
Czech bass guitarist, jazz musician and contrabassist
14
Miles Davis Quintet
American jazz quintet led by Miles Davis
15
Victor Feldman
English recording artist; jazz musician, vibraphonist
16
Victor Gaskin
American bassist
17
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
18
Frankie Dunlop
American jazz drummer
19
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
20
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
21
Connie Kay
American musician
22
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
23
Percy Heath
American musician
24
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
25
Don Butterfield
American musician
26
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
27
Quentin Jackson
American musician
28
Wes Montgomery
American jazz musician
29
Junior Mance
American musician
30
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
31
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
32
Maynard Ferguson
Canadian jazz musician and bandleader
33
Budd Johnson
American musician
34
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
35
Don Menza
American saxophonist
36
Joe Chambers
American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer
37
Pete La Roca
American drummer
38
Burt Collins
American trumpeter and musician
39
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
40
Julian Priester
American jazz trombonist
41
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
42
Sérgio Mendes
Brazilian musician
43
Milt Jackson
American musician
44
Eddie Bert
American musician
45
Jay Migliori
American saxophonist
46
Herbie Lewis
American musician
