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Tiny Bradshaw
American jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, composer, pianist, and drummer
1
Leroy Foster
American blues singer, drummer and guitarist
2
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
3
Cozy Cole
American musician
4
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
5
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
6
Gordon MacRae
American actor, singer (1921-1986)
7
Montana Taylor
American musician
8
Archie Shepp
American jazz musician
9
Al Hibbler
American baritone vocalist
10
Rosco Gordon
American Blues singer and songwriter
11
Gordon Jenkins
American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s
12
Archie Edwards
American Piedmont blues guitarist
13
Rusty Bryant
American musician
14
George Barnes
American musician
15
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
16
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
17
Billy Eckstine
American musician
18
Peter Skellern
English singer, songwriter and pianist
19
Harry South
British musician
20
Jimmie Gordon
American musician
21
Otis Spann
American Chicago blues pianist
22
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
23
Alex Welsh
Scottish musician
24
Erroll Garner
American jazz pianist and composer
25
Andrew Tibbs
American urban blues singer
26
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American gospel musician
27
Little Walter
American blues harmonica player
28
Maurice Rocco
American pianist and actor
29
Mickey Baker
American jazz and rock guitarist
30
Memphis Slim
American recording artist; blues pianist, singer, and composer
31
Hal McKusick
American jazz flautist and saxophonist
32
Alberta Adams
American singer, musician
33
Carl Perkins
American jazz pianist
34
Duke Jordan
American musician
35
Charles Earland
jazz musician
36
Everett Barksdale
American jazz guitarist
37
Muddy Waters
American blues singer and guitarist
38
Big Joe Duskin
American blues and boogie-woogie pianist
39
Little Milton
American singer and guitarist
40
Jeri Southern
American singer
41
Bobby Few
American musician
42
Red Norvo
American musician
43
Makanda Ken McIntyre
American jazz musician and composer
44
Albert Ammons
American jazz pianist, recording artist
45
Albennie Jones
American singer
46
Earl Grant
American musician
47
Piney Brown
American singer (1922-2009)
48
Wingy Manone
American musician
49
Al Hendrickson
American musician
50
Claude Williamson
American pianist
51
Red Saunders
American musician
52
Isham Jones
American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter
53
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
54
Louis Jordan
American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader (1908-1975)
55
Barrelhouse Chuck
Pianist, singer and songwriter
56
Hampton Hawes
American jazz pianist
57
Lula Reed
American singer (1926-2008)
58
Ray Linn
American musician
59
Champion Jack Dupree
American blues pianist
60
Henry Coker
American musician
61
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
62
Wynonie Harris
American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer
63
Jack Teagarden
American jazz musician
