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Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
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Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
2
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
3
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
4
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
5
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
6
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
7
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
8
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
9
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
10
Art Tatum
American jazz pianist
11
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
12
Dennis Irwin
American jazz musician
13
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
14
Ralph Burns
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
15
James Williams
American jazz pianist
16
Niels Lan Doky
Danish musician
17
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
18
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
19
Johnny Griffin
American musician
20
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
21
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
22
Bud Powell
American pianist and composer
23
Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
24
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
25
Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
26
Milt Jackson
American musician
27
Herb Ellis
American jazz guitarist
28
Ray Santisi
Pianist, composer, arranger, college professor, recording artist
29
Lou Donaldson
American saxophonist
30
Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
31
Phineas Newborn Jr.
American pianist
32
Tom Vaughn
American pianist and priest
33
Walter Bishop Jr.
American jazz pianist, recording artist
34
Eddie Higgins
American musician
35
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
36
Donald Brown
American musician
37
Martin Drew
British musician
38
J. C. Heard
American musician
39
Dave Loggins
American musician
40
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
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Aaron Diehl
American jazz pianist
42
Earl Washington
American musician
43
Louis Hayes
American drummer
44
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
45
John Heard
American musician and sculptor
46
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
47
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
49
Ray Bryant
American pianist
50
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
51
Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
52
Michel Camilo
Dominican Grammy-award winning pianist and composer (born 1954)
53
Mike Longo
American musician
54
Chuck Leavell
US musician
55
Hank Mobley
American saxophonist
56
Geoffrey Keezer
American musician
57
Albert Dailey
American musician
58
Kenny Garrett
American musician
