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Joe Locke
American musician
1
Jim McNeely
American musician
2
Abdullah Ibrahim
South African pianist and composer
3
Barney Kessel
American jazz guitarist
4
Billy Strayhorn
American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger
5
Sunny Murray
American drummer
6
Gilles Peterson
French DJ and radio presenter
7
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
8
Chico Hamilton
American musician
9
Barbara Dennerlein
German musician
10
Joe Sample
American pianist
11
Les Paul
American jazz guitarist, country guitarist, songwriter and inventor
12
Julian Lage
American musician
13
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
14
William Parker
American jazz musician
15
DJ Vadim
Russian DJ
16
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
17
John Medeski
American jazz keyboards player and composer
18
Kenny Wheeler
Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
19
Tomasz Stańko
Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser
20
Stevie Wonder
American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
21
Danny Federici
American musician
22
Randy Weston
American jazz pianist
23
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
band
24
Booker Ervin
American saxophonist
25
Craig Taborn
American musician
26
Donny McCaslin
American musician
27
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
28
Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer
29
Wayne Henderson
American trombonist and record producer
30
Gretchen Parlato
American singer
31
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Japanese American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, band master (1929-)
32
Susie Ibarra
American musician
33
Ben Perowsky
American drummer
34
Jimmy Giuffre
American clarinet and saxophone player
35
Dave Brubeck
American jazz pianist and composer
36
Gary Burton
American vibraphonist
37
Ingrid Monson
American trumpeter
38
Dave Liebman
American jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist
39
Sonny Fortune
American saxophonist
40
Lionel Loueke
guitarist
41
Graeme Bell
Australian jazz musician
42
Avishai Cohen
Israeli jazz bassist, composer, singer and arranger
43
Roy Campbell, Jr.
American trumpeter (1952-2014)
44
Tony Allen
Drummer, composer, songwriter
45
Bill Dixon
American musician
46
Seamus Blake
Canadian jazz saxophonist
47
Bobby Hutcherson
American jazz vibraphone and marimba player
48
Guillermo E. Brown
musician
