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Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
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Salome Bey
American-born Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, and actress
2
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
3
Louis Hayes
American drummer
4
Ben Riley
American drummer
5
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
6
Jon Hendricks
American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian
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Larry Young
American jazz musician
8
Victor Lewis
American jazz drummer
9
Richard Wyands
hard bop pianist
10
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
11
Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
12
Jimmy Owens
jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator
13
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
14
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
15
Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
16
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
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King Pleasure
American singer
18
McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
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Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
20
James Moody
American jazz musician
21
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
22
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
23
Roseanna Vitro
Jazz singer
24
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
25
Grover Washington, Jr.
American recording artist, jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist (1943-1999)
26
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
27
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
28
Percy Heath
American musician
29
Red Garland
American modern jazz pianist (1923-1984)
30
Larry Gales
American musician
31
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
32
Dave Burrell
American musician
33
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
34
Ben Tucker
American double-bassist
35
George Duvivier
American musician
36
Sonny Fortune
American saxophonist
37
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
38
Mose Allison
American jazz blues pianist and singer
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Milt Jackson
American musician
40
Bobby McFerrin
American jazz vocalist
41
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
42
Major Holley
American jazz upright bassist
43
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
44
James Williams
American jazz pianist
45
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
46
Bill Watrous
American trombonist
47
Billy Harper
American musician
48
Floyd Smith
American jazz guitarist
49
Sherman Ferguson
American musician
50
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
51
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
52
Keter Betts
American jazz musician
53
Jimmy Smith
American jazz musician
54
Duke Jordan
American musician
55
James Mtume
American jazz and R&B musician, songwriter, record producer, activist and radio personality
56
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
57
Bobby Broom
American musician
58
Gary Bartz
American musician
59
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
60
Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
61
Leon Thomas
American singer
62
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
63
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
64
Woody Shaw
American musician
65
Houston Person
American saxophonist
66
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
67
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
68
Lennie McBrowne
American musician
69
Jimmy Rushing
American blues shouter and swing jazz singer
70
Gildo Mahones
American pianist
71
Freddie Waits
American musician
72
Johnny Hartman
Jazz Singer
73
Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
