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Jamaaladeen Tacuma
American musician
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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
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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)
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Akira Sakata
Japanese jazz saxophonist, actor, researcher (1945-)
