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Jamaaladeen Tacuma

American musician

1

James Blood Ulmer

American jazz and blues guitarist and singer

2

Charles Brackeen

American musician

3

Ornette Coleman

American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer

4

Pharoah Sanders

American jazz saxophonist

5

Don Cherry

American jazz trumpeter

6

Dewey Redman

American saxophonist

7

Melvin Gibbs

musician

8

Albert Ayler

American jazz saxophonist

9

Bill Laswell

American musician

10

Chris Kelsey

American musician

11

Old and New Dreams

band that plays jazz

12

Cecil Taylor

American jazz pianist and poet

13

Luther Thomas

American musician

14

Jackie McLean

American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader

15

Sunny Murray

American drummer

16

Frank Wright

American jazz musician

17

John Carter

American jazz musician

18

Vernon Reid

American guitarist and songwriter

19

Don Pullen

American jazz pianist and organist

20

Charles Tyler

American musician

21

Julius Hemphill

American saxophonist

22

Karl Berger

German jazz vibraphonist, pianist and composer

23

Charles Moffett

American drummer

24

Walter Norris

American pianist

25

Prince Lasha

American musician

26

Blind Idiot God

band

27

Last Exit

28

Asha Puthli

American singer

29

Eric Dolphy

American jazz musician

30

Jayne Cortez

Avant-garde jazz poet

31

Charlie Haden

American jazz double bassist

32

Charles Mingus

American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader

33

Doug Hammond

American musician

34

Byard Lancaster

American saxophonist

35

Denardo Coleman

American drummer

36

Robin Eubanks

American musician

37

Henry Grimes

American musician

38

Paul Bley

Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist

39

George Adams

musician

40

Lee Konitz

American jazz musician

41

Marilyn Crispell

American pianist

42

Lester Bowie

American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)

43

Akira Sakata

Japanese jazz saxophonist, actor, researcher (1945-)