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Lee Young
American musician
1
Red Callender
American string bass and tuba player, member of The Wrecking Crew
2
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
3
Joe Comfort
American musician
4
Irving Ashby
American jazz guitarist
5
John Simmons
American jazz bassist
6
Herb Ellis
American jazz guitarist
7
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
American vocal group in the 1940s and 1950s
8
Nat King Cole
American singer and jazz pianist (1919-1965)
9
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
10
Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
11
Jimmy Rowles
American jazz pianist
12
Buddy Rich
American jazz drummer and bandleader
13
Barney Kessel
American jazz guitarist
14
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
15
Willie Smith
American musician
16
Nick Fatool
American musician
17
Carl Perkins
American jazz pianist
18
Art Tatum
American jazz pianist
19
J. C. Heard
American musician
20
Everett Barksdale
American jazz guitarist
21
Metronome All-Stars
band that plays jazz
22
Alvin Stoller
American musician
23
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
24
Phineas Newborn Jr.
American pianist
25
Norman Granz
American jazz musician and producer
26
Bobby Troup
American actor, jazz pianist, singer and songwriter (1918-1999)
27
Keter Betts
American jazz musician
28
Chico Hamilton
American musician
29
Jackie Paris
American singer
30
John Pizzarelli
American jazz guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader
31
Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
32
Wes Montgomery
American jazz musician
33
Paul Smith
jazz pianist from the United States
34
Johnny Guarnieri
American musician
35
Jimmie Noone
American musician
36
Al "Cake" Wichard
American musician
37
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
38
Buddy Childers
American musician
39
Marty Paich
American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director and bandleader (1925-1995)
40
Sonny Criss
American jazz musician
41
Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
42
Stan Levey
American musician
43
Trigger Alpert
musician
44
Pete Rugolo
American jazz composer, arranger, and record producer (1915-2011)
45
Bill Douglass
American jazz drummer
46
Les Baxter
American musician, singer, composer
47
Cozy Cole
American musician
48
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
49
Floyd Dixon
American rhythm and blues pianist and singer
50
Buddy Collette
American musician
