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Jack Diéval
French jazz musician
1
Freddy Taylor
American musician
2
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
3
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
4
François Guin
French conductor and trumpeter
5
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
6
Bill Coleman
American musician
7
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
8
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
9
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
10
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
11
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
12
Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
13
Don Byas
American musician
14
Big Boy Goudie
American musician
15
Joe Harriott
Jamaican jazz musician
16
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
17
Woody Shaw
American musician
18
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
19
Don Elliott
jazz musician
20
Don Butterfield
American musician
21
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
22
Stéphane Grappelli
French jazz violinist
23
Nunzio Rotondo
Italian composer
24
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
25
Bernard Lubat
French jazz musician
26
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
27
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
28
Maynard Ferguson
Canadian jazz musician and bandleader
29
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
30
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
31
Niels Lan Doky
Danish musician
32
Pete Fountain
American clarinetist (1930-2016)
33
Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
34
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
35
Old and New Dreams
band that plays jazz
36
Red Allen
American jazz musician, band leader
37
Michel Warlop
French classical and jazz violinist
38
Chet Baker
American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1929-1988)
39
Don Ellis
American jazz musician
40
Ravi Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist (born 1965)
41
Benny Carter
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)
42
Mino Cinelu
French musician
43
Archie Shepp
American jazz musician
44
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
45
Charles Lloyd
American jazz musician
46
Phil Minton
Jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter
47
Harold Mabern
American pianist
48
Eddie Costa
American jazz musician; pianist and vibraphonist
49
Bernard Vitet
French trumpeter
50
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
51
Nguyen Le
French jazz guitarist
52
Dave Holland
British musician
53
James Buffington
American musician
54
Bojan Zulfikarpašić
Serbian jazz musician
55
John Barnes
English musician, born 1932
56
Bill Berry
American musician
57
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
58
Michel Petrucciani
French jazz pianist
59
Aimé Barelli
French conductor and trumpeter
