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Melton Mustafa
American musician
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Peter Erskine
American musician
2
Jaco Pastorius
American jazz bassist, producer, educator
3
Mike Stern
American jazz guitarist
4
Michael Brecker
American musician
5
Randy Brecker
American flugelhorn and trumpet player (1945-)
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Blood, Sweat & Tears
American rock music band
7
Weather Report
American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s
8
Biréli Lagrène
French guitarist and bassist
9
Richard Bona
Cameroon-American jazz bassist and musician
10
Brian Bromberg
American musician
11
Michał Urbaniak
Polish musician
12
David Sanborn
American saxophonist
13
Yellowjackets
American jazz fusion band
14
Kazumi Watanabe
Japanese jazz guitarist, composer, producer and University visiting professor (1953-)
15
Vladislav Sendecki
Polish musician
16
Bob Mintzer
jazz musician
17
Howard Johnson
American musician
18
Dave Bargeron
American trombonist and tuba player most famous for playing with the jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat, and Tears
19
Dick Hyde
musician
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Bruce Ditmas
American musician
21
Gil Evans
American pianist
22
John Scofield
American jazz guitarist and composer
23
Phil Markowitz
American musician
24
Tom Scott
American jazz musician
25
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
26
Hiram Bullock
American jazz guitarist
27
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
28
David Kikoski
American musician
29
Mark Egan
American jazz musician
30
Robert Trujillo
American Bass Player
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Narada Michael Walden
American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer
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Ira Sullivan
American jazz musician
33
Mitchel Forman
American pianist
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Harry Lookofsky
American musician
35
Alex Acuña
Peruvian musician
36
Toots Thielemans
Belgian jazz musician
37
Bill Lee
American musician and composer
38
John McLaughlin
English guitarist, bandleader, and composer; founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
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Alfred Ellis
American saxophonist
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Sean Malone
American musician
41
Bobby Shew
American musician
42
Albert Mangelsdorff
German jazz trombonist
43
Tom Lord-Alge
American record producer
44
Jimmy Haslip
American electric bass player and record producer
45
Zebra
American hard rock band
46
Michel Camilo
Dominican Grammy-award winning pianist and composer (born 1954)
47
Chuck Findley
American musician
48
Avishai Cohen
Israeli jazz bassist, composer, singer and arranger
49
Paul McCandless
American musician
50
Bruno Romani
musical artist
51
William Galison
American singer
52
Wayne Andre
American trombonist
53
Stanley Clarke
American bassist, film composer and founding member of Return to Forever
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Flora Purim
Brazilian jazz singer
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Tim Hagans
American musician
56
Jerry Gonzalez
American musician
57
Alphonse Mouzon
American musician (1948-2016)
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Roberto Magris
Italian pianist
59
Annette Peacock
American Jazz composer
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Johnny Dyani
South African jazz double bassist
