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John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
1
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
2
James Williams
American jazz pianist
3
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
4
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
5
Elmer Snowden
American musician
6
Robin Eubanks
American musician
7
Horace Silver
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
8
Jaki Byard
American musician
9
Brad Mehldau
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
10
McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
11
Red Garland
American modern jazz pianist (1923-1984)
12
Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist
13
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
14
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
15
Kevin Eubanks
musician, band leader
16
Bill Cunliffe
American musician
17
Geoffrey Keezer
American musician
18
Phineas Newborn Jr.
American pianist
19
Stanley Clarke
American bassist, film composer and founding member of Return to Forever
20
Craig Taborn
American musician
21
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
22
Jimmy McGriff
American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader (1936-2008)
23
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
24
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
25
Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
26
Bobby Timmons
American pianist
27
Gil Coggins
American musician
28
Albert Ammons
American jazz pianist, recording artist
29
Elmo Hope
American musician
30
Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
31
Tommy Bryant
American musician
32
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
33
Branford Marsalis
American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1960)
34
Don Shirley
American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer
35
Organ trio
trio including a Hammond organ
36
Junior Mance
American musician
37
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
38
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
39
Peter Beets
Dutch musician
40
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
41
Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
42
Freddie Redd
American pianist
43
Pete Johnson
American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, songwriter
44
Fred Hersch
American musician
45
Don Randi
American pianist
46
Joe Sample
American pianist
47
Ehud Asherie
Israeli-American jazz pianist and organist
48
Art Tatum
American jazz pianist
49
Jimmy Smith
American jazz musician
50
Don Pullen
American jazz pianist and organist
51
Axel Zwingenberger
German musician
52
Jymie Merritt
American bassist
53
Eddie Costa
American jazz musician; pianist and vibraphonist
54
Dave Holland
British musician
55
Johnny Griffin
American musician
56
Specs Wright
American jazz drummer
57
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
58
Snooky Young
American musician
59
Harold Mabern
American pianist
60
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
61
Kenny Werner
American jazz pianist, composer, and author
62
Jorge Rossy
Spanish jazz musician
63
Lennie McBrowne
American musician
64
Esbjörn Svensson
Swedish jazz pianist
65
Denny Zeitlin
American pianist
66
Randy Weston
American jazz pianist
67
Percy Heath
American musician
68
Bill Evans
American jazz pianist
69
George Winston
American recording artist; pianist
70
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
71
Hank Crawford
American saxophonist (1934-2009)
72
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
73
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
74
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
75
John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
76
Sam Lazar
American musician
77
Marc Copland
American musician
78
Oliver Jackson
American drummer
