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Chris Brown
American composer, pianist and electronic musician
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Glenn Spearman
American musician
2
Maybe Monday
American experimental music group
3
Henry Kaiser
American guitarist, film director, and scientific diver
4
Miya Masaoka
American composer
5
Barry Guy
British musician
6
William Winant
American percussionist
7
Marilyn Crispell
American pianist
8
Oliver Lake
American musician
9
Fred Frith
English musician, composer and improvisor
10
Andrew Cyrille
American avant-garde jazz drummer
11
Paul Murphy
American musician
12
Paul Rutherford
English free improvising trombonist
13
Hamid Drake
American musician
14
Henry Lowther
British musician
15
Nels Cline
American guitarist and composer
16
George Lewis
composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar
17
Irène Schweizer
Swiss musician
18
Evan Parker
English saxophonist
19
Joëlle Léandre
French double bassist, vocalist and composer
20
Mark Feldman
American violinist
21
Christoph Irniger
Swiss saxophonist
22
Frank Wright
American jazz musician
23
Radu Malfatti
Austrian trombone player and composer
24
Jacques Di Donato
French clarinetist
25
Carla Kihlstedt
American violinist, singer and composer
26
Mark Helias
American musician
27
Eddie Gomez
Puerto Rican bassist
28
Pierre Favre
Swiss musician
29
Vinny Golia
American musician
30
Ikue Mori
Japanese drummer
31
Steve Lacy
American jazz musician; saxophonist, composer
32
Gino Robair
American musician
33
William Hooker
American musician
34
Scott Amendola
musician
35
Trevor Watts
English jazz musician
36
Fredrik Ljungkvist
Swedish jazz musician
37
John Abercrombie
American jazz guitarist
38
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
39
Sylvie Courvoisier
Swiss musician
40
Johnny Dyani
South African jazz double bassist
41
Han Bennink
Dutch musician
42
Alvin Curran
American musician and composer
43
Roscoe Mitchell
American jazz musician
44
Eric Alexander
American saxophonist
45
Paul Lovens
German musician
46
Ernie Watts
American jazz musician
47
John Tchicai
Danish free jazz saxophonist
48
Fred Frith Trio
American experimental music and free improvising group
49
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
50
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
51
Elton Dean
British saxophonist
52
Arthur Blythe
American musician
53
Alexander von Schlippenbach
German jazz pianist and composer
54
Paul Dunmall
Jazz saxophonist
55
Marc Johnson
American jazz bass player, composer and band leader
56
Rudi Mahall
German jazz clarinetist and composer
57
Ellery Eskelin
musician
58
William Parker
American jazz musician
59
Larry Coryell
American guitarist
60
James Williams
American jazz pianist
61
Jemeel Moondoc
American musician
