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Slim & Slam
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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
