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Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
1
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
2
Joe Newman
American musician
3
Melvin Sparks
American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist
4
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
5
Lonnie Smith
American jazz musician
6
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
7
George Duvivier
American musician
8
Larry Gales
American musician
9
Montego Joe
Jamaican jazz musician and music educator
10
Paul Humphrey
American musician
11
Don Patterson
American jazz organist
12
Walter Perkins
American drummer
13
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
14
Jimmy Ponder
American guitarist
15
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
16
Keter Betts
American jazz musician
17
Alan Dawson
American musician
18
Roy Brooks
American drummer
19
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
20
Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
21
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
22
Leonard Gaskin
American musician
23
Harold Vick
American musician
24
Seldon Powell
American musician
25
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
26
Louis Hayes
American drummer
27
Roy McCurdy
jazz drummer
28
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
29
Phil Upchurch
American jazz and R&B guitarist and bassist
30
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
31
Bob Bushnell
musician
32
Houston Person
American saxophonist
33
Jimmie Smith
American jazz drummer
34
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
35
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
36
Eddie Vinson
American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter
37
Earl May
American musician
38
Ben Riley
American drummer
39
Willis Jackson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
40
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
41
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
42
Norman Simmons
pianist and arranger
43
Patti Bown
American musician
44
Roland Hanna
American pianist
45
Bennie Green
American musician
46
Leroy Vinnegar
American bassist
47
Al Grey
American jazz musician
48
George Coleman
American musician
49
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
50
Money Johnson
American musician
51
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
52
Charlie Rouse
American musician
53
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
54
Al McKibbon
American musician
55
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
56
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
57
Charles Kynard
American musician
58
Plas Johnson
American musician
59
Gene Ludwig
American musician
60
Tommy Potter
American musician
61
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
62
Mike Mainieri
American vibraphonist
63
Ben Tucker
American double-bassist
64
Mel Lewis
American musician
65
Russell Malone
jazz guitarist
66
Richard Holmes
American organist
67
Kenny Washington
American musician
68
Eddie Jefferson
American singer
69
Joe Benjamin
American musician
70
Herbie Lovelle
American musician and actor (1924-2009)
71
Cornell Dupree
American R&B/soul jazz guitarist
72
Morris Jennings
American musician
73
Bobby Durham
American musician
74
Matthew Gee
American musician
75
Leo Wright
American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and flautist
76
Chuck Rainey
American bass guitar session musician
77
Duke Jordan
American musician
78
Lennie McBrowne
American musician
79
Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
80
Jerry Dodgion
American musician
81
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
