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David Paich

American musician

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Paul Simon

American musician, songwriter and producer

2

Geoffrey Oryema

Ugandan musician and singer

3

Jimmy Owens

jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator

4

Lakshminarayana Subramaniam

Indian musician (1947— )

5

Herbie Mann

American jazz flutist

6

Johnny Clegg

South African musician, anthropologist and anti-apartheid icon

7

Fred Ho

American jazz musician, author, and activist

8

Don Cherry

American jazz trumpeter

9

John Coltrane

American jazz saxophonist

10

Archie Shepp

American jazz musician

11

Hugh Masekela

South African jazz trumpeter

12

Papa Wemba

Congolese musician

13

Randy Weston

American jazz pianist

14

Anthony Davis

American pianist and composer

15

Tully

16

Lukas Ligeti

composer

17

Anthony Braxton

American musician, composer, and philosopher

18

Dizzy Gillespie

American jazz trumpeter

19

Quincy Jones

American record producer

20

Michael Kamen

American film score composer, orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, and session musician

21

Fela Anikulapo Kuti

Nigerian musician and activist

22

Larry Graham

American bass guitar player

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Charles Mingus

American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader