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Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
1
Bobby Timmons
American pianist
2
Jack DeJohnette
American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer
3
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
4
Lee Morgan
American trumpeter
5
Arthur Blythe
American musician
6
Hank Jones
American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010)
7
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
8
John Esposito
American musician
9
Horace Silver
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
10
Harold Mabern
American pianist
11
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
12
Jaki Byard
American musician
13
Ray Bryant
American pianist
14
Victor Lewis
American jazz drummer
15
Joe LaBarbera
American musician
16
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
17
Geoffrey Keezer
American musician
18
Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
19
James Blood Ulmer
American jazz and blues guitarist and singer
20
Danny Mixon
American musician
21
Walter Booker
American jazz double-bassist
22
James Williams
American jazz pianist
23
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
24
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
25
Craig Taborn
American musician
26
Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
27
Back Door
British band
28
Javon Jackson
American musician
29
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
30
Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist
31
Dave Holland
British musician
32
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
33
Bill Evans
American jazz pianist
34
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
35
Peter Beets
Dutch musician
36
Teddy Wilson
American pianist (1912-1986)
37
Joe Albany
American pianist
38
Paul Motian
American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer
39
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
40
Victor Sproles
American musician
41
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
42
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
43
Ellery Eskelin
musician
44
Brad Mehldau
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
45
Eddie Costa
American jazz musician; pianist and vibraphonist
46
John Bunch
American jazz pianist
47
Joe Henderson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
48
Sammy Price
American pianist
49
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
50
George Adams
musician
51
Hilton Ruiz
American musician of Puerto Rican descent
52
Larry Gray
American musician
53
Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
54
Christian McBride
American musician
55
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
56
Laurence Hobgood
American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, producer, lyricist
57
McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
58
Gary Husband
British musician
59
Herb Geller
American saxophonist (1928-2013)
60
Richie Powell
American pianist
61
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
62
Henri Chaix
Swiss pianist (1925-1999)
63
Bill Charlap
American jazz pianist
64
Eric Person
American musician
65
Cameron Brown
American musician
66
Junior Mance
American musician
67
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
68
Benny Green
American musician
69
Johnny Griffin
American musician
70
John Taylor
British jazz pianist
71
Billy Hart
American jazz drummer
72
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
73
Jimmy Bennington
American musician
74
Harmen Fraanje
jazz musician
75
Ted Rosenthal
American musician
76
Buster Williams
American musician
77
Marvin Smith
American musician
