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Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
1
Junior Cook
American saxophonist
2
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
3
Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
4
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
5
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
6
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
7
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
8
Vincent Herring
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
9
Johnny Griffin
American musician
10
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
11
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
12
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
13
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
14
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
15
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
16
Frank Strozier
American saxophonist
17
Ben Riley
American drummer
18
James Spaulding
American saxophonist
19
Art Davis
American double-bassist
20
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
21
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
22
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
23
Herbie Lewis
American musician
24
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
25
Julian Priester
American jazz trombonist
26
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
27
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
28
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
29
Pete La Roca
American drummer
30
George Coleman
American musician
31
Ben Tucker
American double-bassist
32
Albert Heath
American drummer
33
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
34
Percy Heath
American musician
35
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
36
Harold Land
American musician
37
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
38
George Tucker
American musician
39
Slide Hampton
American trombonist
40
Charlie Rouse
American musician
41
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
42
George Duvivier
American musician
43
Teddy Kotick
American musician
44
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
45
Roy Brooks
American drummer
46
Les Spann
American guitarist
47
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
48
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
49
Lex Humphries
American drummer
50
Oscar Brashear
American trumpeter
51
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
52
Tate Houston
American saxophonist
53
Blue Mitchell
American musician
54
Larry Ridley
American musician
55
Wes Montgomery
American jazz musician
56
Cannonball Adderley
American jazz alto saxophonist
57
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
58
Dave Bailey
American drummer
59
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
60
Harold Vick
American musician
61
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
62
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
63
Milt Jackson
American musician
64
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
65
Freddie Waits
American musician
66
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
67
Don Butterfield
American musician
68
Bill Hardman
American musician
69
Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
70
Connie Kay
American musician
71
Wilbur Ware
American musician
72
Woody Shaw
American musician
73
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
74
Larry Gales
American musician
75
Benny Golson
American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger (born 1929)
76
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
77
Duke Pearson
American pianist
78
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
79
Joe Zawinul
Austrian composer and pianist
80
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
81
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
82
Sonny Red
American musician
