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Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
1
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
2
Bill Doggett
American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist
3
Buddy Tate
American musician
4
Guy Lafitte
French musician
5
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
6
Eddie Chamblee
American saxophonist
7
James Moody
American jazz musician
8
King Curtis
American saxophonist (1934-1971)
9
Panama Francis
American musician
10
Chris Columbus
American jazz drummer
11
Major Holley
American jazz upright bassist
12
Thornel Schwartz
American jazz guitarist
13
Arnett Cobb
American jazz tenor saxophonist
14
Joe Newman
American musician
15
Buster Cooper
American trombonist
16
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
17
Milt Jackson
American musician
18
Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
19
Sam Woodyard
American jazz drummer
20
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
21
Richard Holmes
American organist
22
Johnny Letman
American musician
23
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
24
Howard McGhee
American trumpeter
25
Red Garland
American modern jazz pianist (1923-1984)
26
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
27
Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
28
Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
29
Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
30
Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
31
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
32
Tina Brooks
American musician
33
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
34
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
35
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
36
Roy Brown
American R&B singer, songwriter and musician
37
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
38
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
39
Sonny Criss
American jazz musician
40
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
American blues musician
42
Rudy Rutherford
43
Snooky Young
American musician
44
Alan Dawson
American musician
45
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
46
J. C. Heard
American musician
47
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
48
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
49
Johnny Lytle
American jazz musician
50
Jay McShann
American blues, jazz, and swing bandleader, pianist and singer
51
Floyd Smith
American jazz guitarist
52
George Coleman
American musician
53
Calvin Newborn
American guitarist
54
Mike LeDonne
American musician
55
Frankie Dunlop
American jazz drummer
56
Willie Ruff
American musician
57
Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
58
Billy Mackel
American musician
59
Oliver Jackson
American drummer
60
Kiane Zawadi
American jazz musician
61
Fats Navarro
American jazz trumpeter
62
Masabumi Kikuchi
Japanese keyboardist (1939-2015)
63
Jimmy Woode
American bassist
64
Jimmy McGriff
American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader (1936-2008)
65
Skeeter Best
American musician
66
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
67
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
68
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
69
Irving Ashby
American jazz guitarist
70
Eddie Preston
American musician
71
Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones
jazz musician
72
Joe Williams
American jazz singer
