0
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, and pianist
1
Louis Chauvin
U.S. ragtime pianist
2
Percy Wenrich
American composer
3
Joseph Lamb
American composer of ragtime music
4
Charles L. Johnson
American composer
5
Arthur Marshall
American composer and pianist
6
James Scott
American ragtime composer
7
Vess Ossman
American musician
8
Alma M. Sanders
American composer
9
Arthur Willard Pryor
American bandleader, composer, virtuoso trombonist with the Sousa Band
10
Ben Harney
American musician
11
Eubie Blake
Composer, lyricist, and pianist (1887-1983)
12
Ford Dabney
American conductor and songwriter
13
Joe Jordan
American musician
14
W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
15
Artie Matthews
American songwriter, pianist and ragtime composer
16
Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
17
James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
18
May Aufderheide
American composer
19
David Thomas Roberts
American composer
20
Fred Van Eps
American banjoist
21
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
22
William Bolcom
American composer
23
James Reese Europe
American jazz musician and United States Army officer
24
William Albright
Composer, pianist, organist
25
Euday L. Bowman
American composer
26
Johnny Maddox
American musician
27
Scott Hayden
American composer of ragtime music
28
Clarence Williams
American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher
29
Irving Berlin
Russian-born American songwriter
30
Joshua Rifkin
American conductor, keyboard player, and musicologist
31
Fats Waller
American jazz pianist and composer
