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Hiroshi Fukumura
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Terumasa Hino
Japanese jazz trumpet player
2
Hiroshi Murakami
Japanese jazz drummer, composer, music producer (1948-)
3
Sadao Watanabe
Japanese jazz saxophonist, composer, bandmaster (1933-)
4
Motohiko Hino
Japanese jazz drummer (1946-1999)
5
Eddie Gomez
Puerto Rican bassist
6
Kimiko Kasai
Japanese singer
7
Larry Coryell
American guitarist
8
Gary Peacock
American double-bassist
9
Anthony Jackson
American electric bass guitar player, session musician, songwriter
10
Claude Bolling
French musician
11
Cornell Dupree
American R&B/soul jazz guitarist
12
Masabumi Kikuchi
Japanese keyboardist (1939-2015)
13
Airto Moreira
Brazilian musician
14
Dave Burrell
American musician
15
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
16
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Japanese American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, band master (1929-)
17
Tom Scott
American jazz musician
18
Randy Brecker
American flugelhorn and trumpet player (1945-)
19
Cecil McBee
American bassist
20
Marvin Stamm
American trumpeter
21
Takashi Kako
Japanese composer
22
Martial Solal
French-Algerian jazz pianist
23
Perry Robinson
American musician
24
Lonnie Liston Smith
American pianist
25
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
26
Dave Holland
British musician
27
Takeo Moriyama
Japanese drummer (1945-)
28
Masahiro Sayama
Japanese pianist and composer (1953-2018)
29
Arturo Sandoval
Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer
30
Reggie Workman
American double-bassist
31
Masahiko Satō
Japanese jazz pianist, composer (1941-)
32
Ryo Kawasaki
Japanese jazz guitarist (1947-2020)
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Barry Altschul
American drummer
34
Nels Cline
American guitarist and composer
35
Gato Barbieri
Argentine jazz musician
36
Peter Brötzmann
German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
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John Abercrombie
American jazz guitarist
38
Alice Coltrane
American jazz musician
39
Miroslav Vitouš
Czech bass guitarist, jazz musician and contrabassist
40
Barry Guy
British musician
41
Billy Harper
American musician
42
Roland Hanna
American pianist
43
The Tony Williams Lifetime
44
Frank Wright
American jazz musician
45
Burton Greene
American musician
46
Kaoru Abe
Japanese saxophonist (1949-1978)
47
James Mtume
American jazz and R&B musician, songwriter, record producer, activist and radio personality
48
Victor Gaskin
American bassist
49
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
Japanese musician
50
Dave Bargeron
American trombonist and tuba player most famous for playing with the jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat, and Tears
51
Marty Morell
American musician
52
Bobby Broom
American musician
53
Andrew Cyrille
American avant-garde jazz drummer
54
Barry Finnerty
American musician
55
Badal Roy
musician
56
Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
57
Stan Sulzmann
British musician
58
Byard Lancaster
American saxophonist
59
André Ceccarelli
French musician
60
John Pizzarelli
American jazz guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader
61
Jeb Bishop
American jazz trombone player
62
Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
63
Lakshminarayana Subramaniam
Indian musician (1947— )
64
Ravi Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist (born 1965)
65
Alphonse Mouzon
American musician (1948-2016)
66
Sirone
American musician
67
Masahiko Togashi
Japanese jazz percussionist and drummer (1940-2007)
68
Evan Parker
English saxophonist
69
Gene Harris
American pianist
70
Naná Vasconcelos
Brazilian percussionist
71
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
72
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
73
Herbie Hancock
American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
74
Derek Smith
British musician
75
Emil Richards
American musician
76
Paquito D'Rivera
Cuban musician
77
Lenny White
American drummer
78
Don Thompson
Canadian musician
79
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
80
Keith Tippett
British pianist
81
Chris Karan
Greek Australian musician
82
Chuck Rainey
American bass guitar session musician
83
Frédéric François
Belgian singer
84
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
