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Slim & Slam

1

Dodo Marmarosa

American musician

2

Dizzy Gillespie

American jazz trumpeter

3

Slam Stewart

American musician

4

Ignacio Berroa

Cuban musician

5

Machito

Latin jazz musician

6

Chico O'Farrill

Cuban composer and musician

7

Jack McVea

American musician

8

Armando Peraza

Cuban percussionist

9

Taft Jordan

Jazz trumpeter

10

Bennie Green

American musician

11

Jackie Mills

12

Arturo Sandoval

Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer

13

Pete Brown

American musician

14

Ron Holloway

American tenor saxophonist

15

Chano Pozo

Cuban musician

16

Sayyd Abdul Al-Khabyyr

musician

17

Lucky Thompson

American saxophonist

18

Neal Hefti

American jazz trumpeter, composer, songwriter, and arranger (1928-2008)

19

Joe Liggins

American R&B, jazz and blues pianist

20

Bud Powell

American pianist and composer

21

Benny Carter

American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)

22

Ernesto Lecuona

Cuban composer (1896-1963)

23

Max Roach

American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer

24

Mary Lou Williams

American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer

25

John Lewis

American jazz pianist, composer and arranger

26

Earl Hines

American jazz pianist

27

Fats Navarro

American jazz trumpeter

28

Howard McGhee

American trumpeter

29

Percy Heath

American musician

30

Kenny Barron

American jazz pianist

31

Charlie Persip

American jazz drummer

32

J. C. Heard

American musician

33

Sahib Shihab

American jazz saxophonist and flautist

34

Don Byas

American musician

35

Hilton Ruiz

American musician of Puerto Rican descent

36

Mario Bauzá Cárdenas

American musician

37

Billy Taylor

American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator

38

Oscar Pettiford

American musician

39

Ralph Moore

British musician

40

Mary Osborne

American musician

41

Jack Sels

Belgian musician

42

Herb Ellis

American jazz guitarist

43

Kansas Fields

American musician

44

Sarah Vaughan

American jazz singer

45

James Moody

American jazz musician

46

Tete Montoliu

Spanish jazz musician and pianist (1933-1997)

47

Jay McShann

American blues, jazz, and swing bandleader, pianist and singer

48

Stuff Smith

American musician

49

Gabe Baltazar

American musician

50

Urbie Green

American jazz trombonist

51

Al McKibbon

American musician

52

Freddie Redd

American pianist