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Jackie McLean
American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader
1
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
2
Harold Land
American musician
3
Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
4
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
5
Tina Brooks
American musician
6
Sonny Clark
American musician
7
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
8
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
9
Dewey Redman
American saxophonist
10
Freddie Redd
American pianist
11
Charles Lloyd
American jazz musician
12
Javon Jackson
American musician
13
Louis Hayes
American drummer
14
Bobby Bradford
American musician
15
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
16
Junko Onishi
Japanese jazz pianist (1967-)
17
George Tucker
American musician
18
Kenny Cox
American musician
19
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
20
Shadow Wilson
American jazz drummer (1919-1959)
21
Lennie McBrowne
American musician
22
Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
23
Junior Cook
American saxophonist
24
John Jenkins
American jazz saxophonist
25
Bill Hardman
American musician
26
George Duvivier
American musician
27
Walter Davis
American pianist
28
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
29
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
30
Pete La Roca
American drummer
31
Bennie Green
American musician
32
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
33
J. R. Monterose
American musician
34
George Coleman
American musician
35
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
36
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
37
Denardo Coleman
American drummer
38
James Blood Ulmer
American jazz and blues guitarist and singer
39
Steve Kuhn
American pianist
40
Don Butterfield
American musician
41
Bobby Hutcherson
American jazz vibraphone and marimba player
42
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
43
Idris Muhammad
American drummer
44
Woody Shaw
American musician
45
Lenny White
American drummer
46
Clifford Jarvis
American drummer
47
Steve Davis
American musician
48
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
49
Lonnie Plaxico
American jazz bassist
50
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
51
Bobby Broom
American musician
52
Bill Watrous
American trombonist
53
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
54
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
55
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
