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Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
1
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
2
Andrew Cyrille
American avant-garde jazz drummer
3
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
4
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
5
Joe Chambers
American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer
6
Art Davis
American double-bassist
7
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
8
Cecil McBee
American bassist
9
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
10
Ted Curson
Jazz trumpeter
11
Julian Priester
American jazz trombonist
12
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
13
Milt Jackson
American musician
14
Ahmed Abdul-Malik
bassist
15
Ben Riley
American drummer
16
Herbie Lewis
American musician
17
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
18
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
19
George Duvivier
American musician
20
Louis Hayes
American drummer
21
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
22
Oliver Lake
American musician
23
Charlie Rouse
American musician
24
Albert Heath
American drummer
25
Johnny Griffin
American musician
26
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
27
Eric Dolphy
American jazz musician
28
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
29
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
30
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
31
Bob Bushnell
musician
32
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
33
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
34
Billy Harper
American musician
35
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
36
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
37
Archie Shepp
American jazz musician
38
Mel Lewis
American musician
39
McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
40
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
41
Marion Brown
American saxophonist
42
Joe Newman
American musician
43
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
44
Wilbur Ware
American musician
45
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
46
Reggie Johnson
American musician
47
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
48
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
49
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
50
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
51
Walter Davis
American pianist
52
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
53
George Andrew Cables
American jazz pianist
54
Denis Charles
American jazz drummer
55
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
56
Warren Smith
American musician
57
George Coleman
American musician
58
Jerry Dodgion
American musician
59
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
60
Sonny Fortune
American saxophonist
61
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
62
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
63
Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
64
Harold Vick
American musician
65
Booker Ervin
American saxophonist
66
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
67
Dave Bailey
American drummer
68
John Tchicai
Danish free jazz saxophonist
69
Charles Tolliver
American musician
70
George Tucker
American musician
71
Bob Northern
American jazz musician
72
Walter Bishop Jr.
American jazz pianist, recording artist
73
Beaver Harris
American musician
