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Biréli Lagrène

French guitarist and bassist

1

Lenny White

American drummer

2

Alphonse Mouzon

American musician (1948-2016)

3

Vladislav Sendecki

Polish musician

4

Steve Khan

American musician

5

Mark Sherman

American musician

6

Anthony Jackson

American electric bass guitar player, session musician, songwriter

7

Jean-Luc Ponty

French musician

8

Michał Urbaniak

Polish musician

9

Joe Beck

American musician

10

Al Di Meola

American guitarist

11

George Mraz

Czech jazz bassist

12

Paco de Lucía

Spanish flamenco, classical, jazz guitarist & musician

13

Joscho Stephan

German musician

14

Barry Miles

American musician

15

Romero Lubambo

Brazilian musician

16

Vic Juris

American jazz guitarist

17

Café

musician

18

Miroslav Vitouš

Czech bass guitarist, jazz musician and contrabassist

19

John Abercrombie

American jazz guitarist

20

John McLaughlin

English guitarist, bandleader, and composer; founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra

21

Eddie Gomez

Puerto Rican bassist

22

Bob Moses

American musician

23

Hiram Bullock

American jazz guitarist

24

Jimmy Rosenberg

Dutch musician

25

Larry Young

American jazz musician

26

Airto Moreira

Brazilian musician

27

Eddie Daniels

American musician

28

Philip Catherine

musician

29

Emily Remler

American musician

30

Sylvain Luc

French musician

31

Bob James

smooth jazz keyboardist and composer

32

Gene Bertoncini

American jazz guitarist

33

Billy Cobham

American jazz drummer

34

Victor Bailey

American musician

35

Ralph Towner

American musician

36

Roland Hanna

American pianist

37

Tony Williams

American jazz drummer

38

André Ceccarelli

French musician

39

Jim Pepper

Kaw-Muscogee Creek jazz musician

40

Pierre Moerlen

French musician

41

Ryo Kawasaki

Japanese jazz guitarist (1947-2020)

42

Stanley Clarke

American bassist, film composer and founding member of Return to Forever

43

Red Rodney

American musician

44

Marvin Stamm

American trumpeter

45

Randy Brecker

American flugelhorn and trumpet player (1945-)

46

Badi Assad

Brazilian singer, musician

47

Joe Farrell

American saxophonist

48

Ray Mantilla

American jazz drummer

49

David Friedman

American jazz percussionist

50

Ronnie Mathews

American musician

51

Cedar Walton

American hard bop jazz pianist

52

Dave Holland

British musician

53

Luis Conte

Cuban jazz musician

54

Billy Drummond

American musician

55

Kenny Burrell

American jazz guitarist

56

Marc Johnson

American jazz bass player, composer and band leader

57

Jack Wilkins

American musician