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Steve Smith
American drummer
1
Fareed Haque
American musician
2
Randy Brecker
American flugelhorn and trumpet player (1945-)
3
Michael Brecker
American musician
4
Mike Stern
American jazz guitarist
5
Ram Narayan
classical sarangi player from India
6
Zakir Hussain
Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer.
7
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
band
8
Louis Banks
Indian singer, film composer, record producer and jazz musician-keyboardist
9
Ravi Shankar
Indian sitar player (1920-2012)
10
Howard Levy
American musician
11
Larry Gray
American musician
12
Barry Finnerty
American musician
13
Paul Wertico
American drummer
14
Frank Catalano
American musician
15
Neil Jason
American musician
16
Jim Beard
American musician
17
Robert Irving III
American pianist and composer
18
David Sanborn
American saxophonist
19
Will Lee
American bass guitarist
20
Dean Brown
American jazz fusion guitarist and session musician
21
Alla Rakha
Indian tabla player
22
Blood, Sweat & Tears
American rock music band
23
Geoffrey Keezer
American musician
24
Brian Torff
American musician
25
Bill Evans
American jazz saxophonist
26
Paul McCandless
American musician
27
George Brooks
American saxophonist
28
Danny Gottlieb
American drummer
29
Cab Calloway
American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)
30
Béla Fleck
American banjo player
31
Sadao Watanabe
Japanese jazz saxophonist, composer, bandmaster (1933-)
32
Ted Rosenthal
American musician
33
Ryo Kawasaki
Japanese jazz guitarist (1947-2020)
34
Randy Sandke
American musician
35
Conte Candoli
American musician
36
Collin Walcott
musician and ethnomusicologist from the United States
37
Sultan Khan
Indian musician
38
Michel Camilo
Dominican Grammy-award winning pianist and composer (born 1954)
39
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
40
Sinan Alimanović
Bosnian jazz pianist
41
Lonnie Brooks
American blues singer and guitarist
42
Richard Bona
Cameroon-American jazz bassist and musician
43
Mark Murphy
American singer
44
Ravi Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist (born 1965)
45
Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
46
Marc Copland
American musician
47
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
