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Dwayne Dolphin
American jazz bassist
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Stanley Turrentine
American musician
2
Michael Philip Mossman
American musician
3
Jimmy Ponder
American guitarist
4
Dave Bailey
American drummer
5
Louis Hayes
American drummer
6
George Coleman
American musician
7
Bill Henderson
jazz vocalist and actor (1926-2016)
8
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
9
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
10
Harold Vick
American musician
11
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
12
Bobby Bryant
American trumpeter
13
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
14
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
15
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
16
Blue Mitchell
American musician
17
George Tucker
American musician
18
Joe Henderson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
19
Junior Cook
American saxophonist
20
Butch Warren
American musician
21
Donald Bailey
American jazz drummer
22
Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
23
Cecil Brooks III
American musician
24
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
25
Sabu Martinez
American musician
26
Joe Chambers
American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer
27
Cecil Bridgewater
American jazz trumpeter
28
Horace Silver
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
29
Jack Wilson
American pianist (1936-2007)
30
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
31
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
32
Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
33
Eddie Bert
American musician
34
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
35
Bobby Hutcherson
American jazz vibraphone and marimba player
36
Ronnie Cuber
American musician
37
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
38
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
39
Jimmy Smith
American jazz musician
40
Carmell Jones
American trumpeter
41
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
42
Houston Person
American saxophonist
43
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
44
Andy Bey
American musician
45
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
46
Oscar Brashear
American trumpeter
47
Gene Ludwig
American musician
48
Pete La Roca
American drummer
49
Red Mitchell
American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet
50
Teddy Smith
American bassist
51
Buster Williams
American musician
52
John Gross
American saxophone, flute and clarinet player
53
Teddy Kotick
American musician
54
Lonnie Smith
American jazz musician
55
Louis Smith
American musician
56
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
57
David Weiss
American jazz trumpeter, songwriter
58
John Patton
American organist
59
Slide Hampton
American trombonist
60
Roy Hargrove
American jazz trumpeter
61
Bob Berg
American musician
62
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
63
Tom Harrell
American composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist
64
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
65
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
66
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
67
Horace Tapscott
American musician
68
Montego Joe
Jamaican jazz musician and music educator
69
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
70
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
71
Hampton Hawes
American jazz pianist
72
Michel Camilo
Dominican Grammy-award winning pianist and composer (born 1954)
73
Sherman Ferguson
American musician
74
Charles Davis
American musician
75
Vincent Herring
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
76
Randy Brecker
American flugelhorn and trumpet player (1945-)
77
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
78
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
79
George Adams
musician
80
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
81
Dana Hall
Jazz drummer
