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Cab Calloway
American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)
1
Joe Evans
American saxophonist
2
Joe Thomas
American alto saxophonist and songwriter
3
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
4
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
5
Chu Berry
American musician
6
Lou Donaldson
American saxophonist
7
Danny Barker
American jazz musician
8
Eddie Barefield
American musician
9
Joe Lovano
American jazz flautist, saxophonist, clarinettist
10
Jonah Jones
American musician
11
Mills Blue Rhythm Band
band that plays jazz
12
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
13
Little Willie Jackson
American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist, bandleader and occasional vocalist
14
Art Pepper
American musician
15
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
16
Dan Minor
jazz trombonist
17
Irving Mills
American music publisher, singer, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter
18
George Siravo
American musician
19
Bill Ramsay
American jazz saxophonist & bandleader
20
Claude Jones
trombonist
21
Hilton Jefferson
American jazz saxophonist
22
Milt Hinton
American musician and photographer
23
Lee Konitz
American jazz musician
24
J. C. Heard
American musician
25
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
26
Jerry Blake
American musician
27
Nat Towles
jazz musician
28
Shad Collins
American musician
29
Ike Quebec
American jazz tenor saxophonist
30
Earl Bostic
American musician
31
Don Byas
American musician
32
Grace Kelly
Asian-American jazz musician
33
Bunny Berigan
American musician
34
Hot Lips Page
American jazz musician
35
Ernie Caceres
American musician
36
Reuben Phillips
musician
37
Johnny Hodges
American alto saxophonist
38
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
39
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
40
Ted Nash
American musician
41
Cozy Cole
American musician
42
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
43
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
44
Hubert Laws
American flutist and saxophonist
45
Russell Smith
American jazz musician
46
Teddy McRae
American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger
47
Bud Shank
American saxophonist and flautist
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Cannonball Adderley
American jazz alto saxophonist
49
Burnie Peacock
50
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
51
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
52
Yusef Lateef
American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
53
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
54
Joe Temperley
Scottish musician
55
Lennie Niehaus
American saxophonist and composer (1929-2020)
56
Willie Smith
American musician
57
Blanche Calloway
American singer, bandleader and composer
58
Mario Bauzá Cárdenas
American musician
59
Ben Smith
American jazz alto saxophonist, tenor saxophonist and clarinetist
