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Eric Dolphy
American jazz musician
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Booker Ervin
American saxophonist
2
Paul Quinichette
American saxophonist and jazz musician
3
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
4
Jaki Byard
American musician
5
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
6
Paul Chambers
American musician
7
Jackie McLean
American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader
8
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
9
Sonny Fortune
American saxophonist
10
Lennie Tristano
American jazz pianist and composer
11
Hampton Hawes
American jazz pianist
12
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
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Al Dreares
American jazz drummer
14
Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
15
Rudy Van Gelder
American recording engineer
16
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
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Red Garland
American modern jazz pianist (1923-1984)
18
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
19
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
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Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
21
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
22
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
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Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
24
Harold Mabern
American pianist
25
Elvin Jones
American jazz drummer
26
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
27
Bill Hardman
American musician
28
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
29
Richard Wyands
hard bop pianist
30
Marion Brown
American saxophonist
31
Albert Ayler
American jazz saxophonist
32
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
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John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
34
Ricky Ford
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Roland Alexander
musician
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James Moody
American jazz musician
37
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
38
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
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Steve Lacy
American jazz musician; saxophonist, composer
40
Freddie Redd
American pianist
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Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
42
Ravi Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist (born 1965)
43
Johnny Griffin
American musician
44
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
45
Charlie Parker
American jazz saxophonist and composer
46
Larry Young
American jazz musician
47
McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
48
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
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George Barrow
American jazz musician
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Billy Taylor
American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator
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Jon Faddis
Jazz trumpet player
