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Albert Heath
American drummer
1
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
2
Dannie Richmond
American drummer
3
George Mraz
Czech jazz bassist
4
Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
5
Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
6
Al Foster
American musician
7
Red Mitchell
American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet
8
Bob Berg
American musician
9
Adam Nussbaum
American jazz drummer
10
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
11
Booker Ervin
American saxophonist
12
Terumasa Hino
Japanese jazz trumpet player
13
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Danish jazz upright bassist
14
Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
15
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
16
Hal Galper
American pianist
17
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
18
Duško Gojković
Serbian musician
19
Eddie Henderson
American musician
20
Eddie Harris
American jazz musician, saxophonist
21
Charles Tolliver
American musician
22
Idris Muhammad
American drummer
23
Philip Catherine
musician
24
Lewis Nash
American drummer
25
Mundell Lowe
American jazz guitarist (1922-2017)
26
Mike Richmond
American musician
27
Victor Lewis
American jazz drummer
28
Rahn Burton
American jazz pianist
29
John Stubblefield
American musician
30
Benny Bailey
American musician
31
Ron McClure
American jazz bassist
32
Daniel Humair
Swiss drummer and painter
33
Jeff Hirshfield
American musician
34
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
35
Larry Schneider
American musician
36
Roland Hanna
American pianist
37
Marc Johnson
American jazz bass player, composer and band leader
38
Junior Cook
American saxophonist
39
Cecil McBee
American bassist
40
Billy Harper
American musician
41
George Adams
musician
42
Andrew Cyrille
American avant-garde jazz drummer
43
Glenn Ferris
American musician
44
Jack Walrath
Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader
45
Bo Stief
Danish musician
46
Jesper Lundgaard
Danish musician
47
Ed Soph
American drummer
48
John Heard
American musician and sculptor
49
Rick Margitza
American musician
50
Cameron Brown
American musician
51
Louis Hayes
American drummer
52
Joe Nay
German drummer
53
Beaver Harris
American musician
54
Herbie Lewis
American musician
55
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
56
John Tchicai
Danish free jazz saxophonist
57
Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
58
Eric Ineke
Dutch musician
