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Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
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Don Byas
Don Byas
American musician
2
Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
3
Don Cherry
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
4
Peanuts Holland
Peanuts Holland
American musician
5
Darnell Howard
Darnell Howard
American musician
6
Red Allen
Red Allen
American jazz musician, band leader
7
Aaron Bell
Aaron Bell
American musician
8
Gus Johnson
Gus Johnson
American musician
9
Tete Montoliu
Tete Montoliu
Spanish jazz musician and pianist (1933-1997)
10
Ben Webster
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
11
Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
12
Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
13
Harold Mabern
Harold Mabern
American pianist
14
Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
15
Idrees Sulieman
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
16
Osie Johnson
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
17
John Gross
John Gross
American saxophone, flute and clarinet player
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Bill Coleman
Bill Coleman
American musician
19
Dud Bascomb
Dud Bascomb
American musician
20
Buddy Tate
Buddy Tate
American musician
21
Ray Bryant
Ray Bryant
American pianist
22
Wallace Davenport
Wallace Davenport
American musician
23
Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
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Matt Garrison
Matt Garrison
American musician
25
Sadik Hakim
Sadik Hakim
American musician
26
Ray Nance
Ray Nance
American musician
27
Benny Carter
Benny Carter
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)
28
Charlie Shavers
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
29
Jimmy Woode
Jimmy Woode
American bassist
30
Claude Hopkins
Claude Hopkins
American pianist
31
Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
32
Charles Thompson
Charles Thompson
American pianist
33
Omer Simeon
Omer Simeon
American musician
34
Ravi Coltrane
Ravi Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist (born 1965)
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Bennie Wallace
Bennie Wallace
American musician
36
Shad Collins
Shad Collins
American musician
37
Buster Bailey
Buster Bailey
American musician
38
Sam Woodyard
Sam Woodyard
American jazz drummer
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Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace
English drummer
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Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
41
Jean Toussaint
Jean Toussaint
jazz musician
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Wild Bill Davis
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
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James Moody
James Moody
American jazz musician
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Pepper Adams
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
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Eric Dolphy
Eric Dolphy
American jazz musician
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Art Farmer
Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
47
Dewey Redman
Dewey Redman
American saxophonist
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Don Pullen
Don Pullen
American jazz pianist and organist
49
Ted Heath
Ted Heath
British musician
50
Chris Columbus
Chris Columbus
American jazz drummer
51
Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman
American musician
52
Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
53
Ronnell Bright
Ronnell Bright
American musician
54
Don Shirley
Don Shirley
American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer
55
Steve Kuhn
Steve Kuhn
American pianist
56
Eddie Vinson
Eddie Vinson
American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter
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Russell Procope
Russell Procope
American musician
58
Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty
French musician
59
Herb Jeffries
Herb Jeffries
American singer and actor (1913-2014)
60
Marvin Smith
Marvin Smith
American musician
61
Trigger Alpert
Trigger Alpert
musician
62
Willie Lewis
Willie Lewis
American bandleader, conductor and jazz musician
63
Mulgrew Miller
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
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Jesper Thilo
Jesper Thilo
Danish jazz musician
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Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Cozy Cole
Cozy Cole
American musician
67
Walter Norris
Walter Norris
American pianist
68
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
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Abdullah Ibrahim
Abdullah Ibrahim
South African pianist and composer
70
Jimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
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Wallace Roney
Wallace Roney
American musician
72
Wendell Marshall
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
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Joe Williams
Joe Williams
American jazz singer
74
George Duvivier
George Duvivier
American musician
75
Nat Pierce
Nat Pierce
American musician
76
Peter Herbolzheimer
Peter Herbolzheimer
German musician
77
Dicky Wells
Dicky Wells
American jazz trombonist
78
Fats Navarro
Fats Navarro
American jazz trumpeter
79
Slide Hampton
Slide Hampton
American trombonist
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Bunny Berigan
Bunny Berigan
American musician
81
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
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Jim Pepper
Jim Pepper
Kaw-Muscogee Creek jazz musician
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Jimmy Hamilton
Jimmy Hamilton
American jazz musician
84
Russell Garcia
Russell Garcia
American composer
Wallace Bishop
American musician

Wallace Bishop

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Wallace Bishop (February 17, 1906 – May 2, 1986) was an American swing jazz drummer.

Bishop was born in Chicago, Illinois. He started on drums as a teenager, studying under Jimmy Bertrand. His first professional gig was with Art Sims and his Crole Roof Orchestra in Milwaukee, which he joined in 1926; around this time he also played with Jelly Roll Morton, Bernie Young, Hughie Swift, Richard M. Jones, and Tommy Dorsey. From 1928 to 1930 he played with Erskine Tate and, following this, with the Earl Hines Orchestra from 1931-1937. In the 1940s he played with Jimmie Noone (1941), Coleman Hawkins (1943), Don Redman, Phil Moore, Walter "Foots" Thomas, John Kirby (1946), Sy Oliver, Sammy Price, and Billy Kyle.

While touring Europe with Buck Clayton in 1949, Bishop elected to remain there, and found work both with noted European jazz musicians and with touring or expatriate Americans, including Bill Coleman, Don Byas, Ben Webster, Kid Ory, Milt Buckner, Buddy Tate, and T-Bone Walker. Bishop recorded only two pieces as a bandleader in 1950, with a trio, but he continued to record regularly into the 1970s.

He died in Hilversum, the Netherlands, aged 80.