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Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
1
Dennis Irwin
American jazz musician
2
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
3
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
4
Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
5
Dale Barlow
Australian musician
6
Carl Allen
American jazz drummer
7
James Williams
American jazz pianist
8
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
9
Bill Hardman
American musician
10
Wallace Roney
American musician
11
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
12
Charles Fambrough
Jazz bassist, composer and producer
13
Bobby Watson
composer
14
Hank Mobley
American saxophonist
15
Charnett Moffett
American musician
16
Ralph Peterson, Jr.
American jazz drummer
17
Branford Marsalis
American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1960)
18
Jymie Merritt
American bassist
19
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
20
Jon Hendricks
American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian
21
Lee Morgan
American trumpeter
22
Kevin Eubanks
musician, band leader
23
Johnny Griffin
American musician
24
David Schnitter
American musician
25
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
26
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
27
Donald Harrison
musician, composer, producer, instructor
28
Woody Shaw
American musician
29
Bill Pierce
American musician
30
Vincent Herring
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
31
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
32
Lonnie Plaxico
American jazz bassist
33
Duke Pearson
American pianist
