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Bobby Timmons
American pianist
1
Geoffrey Keezer
American musician
2
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
3
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
4
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
5
Phineas Newborn Jr.
American pianist
6
Charnett Moffett
American musician
7
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
8
James Williams
American jazz pianist
9
Craig Taborn
American musician
10
Horace Silver
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
11
Richie Powell
American pianist
12
Jaki Byard
American musician
13
Ray Bryant
American pianist
14
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
15
Carl Allen
American jazz drummer
16
Harold Mabern
American pianist
17
Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
18
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
19
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
20
Junior Mance
American musician
21
Buster Williams
American musician
22
Tony Reedus
American musician
23
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
24
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Danish jazz upright bassist
25
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
26
Kevin Hays
American musician
27
Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist
28
Brad Mehldau
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
29
Jack DeJohnette
American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer
30
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
31
Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
32
Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
33
Bud Powell
American pianist and composer
34
McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
35
Freddie Redd
American pianist
36
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
37
Willie Jones, III
American drummer
38
Danny Mixon
American musician
39
Kevin Eubanks
musician, band leader
40
Jutta Hipp
Jazz pianist (1925-2003)
41
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
42
Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
43
Red Garland
American modern jazz pianist (1923-1984)
44
Johnny Griffin
American musician
45
Benny Green
American musician
46
Carl Perkins
American jazz pianist
47
Elmo Hope
American musician
48
Steve Wilson
American jazz musician
49
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
50
Marty Morell
American musician
51
Sullivan Fortner
musical artist
52
Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
53
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
54
Stanley Clarke
American bassist, film composer and founding member of Return to Forever
55
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
56
Uri Caine
American pianist
57
Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer
58
Gary Husband
British musician
59
Jean Toussaint
jazz musician
60
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
61
Gary Peacock
American double-bassist
62
Dena DeRose
Jazz pianist and singer, educator
63
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
64
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
65
John Taylor
British jazz pianist
66
Alan Barnes
British musician
67
Russ Lossing
American jazz musician
68
Jorge Rossy
Spanish jazz musician
69
John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
70
Miles Davis
American jazz musician (1926-1991)
71
Eddie Costa
American jazz musician; pianist and vibraphonist
72
Cal Tjader
American Latin jazz musician, recording artist
73
Herbie Hancock
American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
74
Christian McBride
American musician
75
Pete Jolly
American musician
76
Bill Cunliffe
American musician
77
Dale Barlow
Australian musician
