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Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones
jazz musician
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Melvin Sparks
American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist
2
Johnny "Hammond" Smith
American organist
3
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
4
Houston Person
American saxophonist
5
Rusty Bryant
American musician
6
Charles Earland
jazz musician
7
Richard Holmes
American organist
8
Leon Spencer
American jazz organist
9
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
10
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
11
Don Patterson
American jazz organist
12
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
13
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
14
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
15
George Duvivier
American musician
16
Idris Muhammad
American drummer
17
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
18
Jimmy Ponder
American guitarist
19
Bob Bushnell
musician
20
Bob Cranshaw
American musician
21
Harold Vick
American musician
22
Seldon Powell
American musician
23
Billy Butler
American musician
24
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
25
Joe Newman
American musician
26
Walter Perkins
American drummer
27
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
28
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
29
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
30
Horace Ott
American musician
31
Johnny Lytle
American jazz musician
32
Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
33
Oliver Jackson
American drummer
34
Matthew Gee
American musician
35
Alan Dawson
American musician
36
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
37
Bill Hardman
American musician
38
Oscar Brashear
American trumpeter
39
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
40
Leroy Williams
American jazz drummer
41
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
42
George Andrew Cables
American jazz pianist
43
Charles McPherson
American jazz alto saxophonist
44
Teddy Edwards
American jazz tenor saxophonist
45
Ben Riley
American drummer
46
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
47
Joe Beck
American musician
48
Richard Wyands
hard bop pianist
49
Albert Heath
American drummer
50
Chuck Rainey
American bass guitar session musician
51
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
52
Sonny Criss
American jazz musician
53
Bobby Bryant
American trumpeter
54
Roy McCurdy
jazz drummer
55
Louis Hayes
American drummer
56
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
57
Duke Jordan
American musician
58
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
59
Dolo Coker
American musician
60
Walter Booker
American jazz double-bassist
61
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
62
Eddie Jefferson
American singer
63
Woody Shaw
American musician
64
Etta Jones
American jazz singer
65
Reunald Jones
American musician
66
Larry Gales
American musician
67
Albert Dailey
American musician
68
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
69
Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers
jazz band
70
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
71
Warren Smith
American musician
72
King Pleasure
American singer
73
Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
74
Roland Hanna
American pianist
75
Herbie Lovelle
American musician and actor (1924-2009)
76
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
77
Paul Humphrey
American musician
