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Paul McCandless
American musician
1
Lyle Mays
American jazz musician
2
Marc Johnson
American jazz bass player, composer and band leader
3
Gary Peacock
American double-bassist
4
Collin Walcott
musician and ethnomusicologist from the United States
5
Henry Butler
American musician
6
Steve Rodby
American jazz musician
7
Kenny Wheeler
Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
8
Manfred Eicher
German record producer
9
Ralph Alessi
Trumpeter, composer
10
John Abercrombie
American jazz guitarist
11
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
12
Peter Erskine
American musician
13
Miroslav Vitouš
Czech bass guitarist, jazz musician and contrabassist
14
Eberhard Weber
German musician
15
Eddie Gomez
Puerto Rican bassist
16
Hugh Ragin
American musician
17
David Torn
American guitarist
18
Stan Sulzmann
British musician
19
Roscoe Mitchell
American jazz musician
20
Enrico Rava
Italian trumpeter
21
Florian Weber
German composer and pianist
22
Robin Eubanks
American musician
23
Billy Kilson
American musician
24
Bob Moses
American musician
25
Turtle Island Quartet
string quartet formed in 1985 by David Balakrishnan, Darol Anger, and Mark Summer in San Francisco
26
Oded Tzur
Israeli saxophonist based in New York
27
Charles Lloyd
American jazz musician
28
Trilok Gurtu
Indian musician
29
Barre Phillips
American bassist
30
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
31
Ben Street
American musician
32
Tom Varner
American musician
33
Dave Holland
British musician
34
Barry Altschul
American drummer
35
Bill Connors
American musician
36
Julian Priester
American jazz trombonist
37
Dave Grusin
American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist
38
John Beasley
American jazz pianist, bandleader, and producer of music in film and television
39
Gary Burton
American vibraphonist
40
Michael Formanek
American jazz bassist
41
Steve Swallow
jazz bassist and composer
42
Larry Grenadier
American bassist
43
Ralph Towner
American musician
44
Justine Frischmann
English musician
45
Ed Schuller
American musician
46
Drew Gress
American musician
47
Django Bates
British musician
48
Michael Manring
American musician
49
Christy Doran
Swiss musician
50
Dave Samuels
American musician
51
Chögyam Trungpa
Tibetan Buddhist lama and writer (1939-1987)
52
Bill Frisell
American musician
53
Jeff Ballard
American drummer
54
Vijay Iyer
American jazz musician
55
Manu Katché
French musician
56
Norma Winstone
English jazz singer
57
Stephan Micus
German composer
58
Tomasz Stańko
Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser
59
Carla Bley
American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader
60
Palle Danielsson
Swedish jazz musician; double bassist and composer
61
Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
62
Thomas Strønen
Jazz drummer
63
Tia Fuller
American musician
64
Arkady Shilkloper
Russian trumpeter and hornist
65
Bobby Watson
composer
66
Ray Obiedo
American musician
67
Naná Vasconcelos
Brazilian percussionist
68
Phillip Wilson
American drummer (1941-1992)
69
Arve Henriksen
Norwegian musician
70
Ferenc Snétberger
Hungarian musician
71
Michael Mantler
Austrian musician
72
Gregory Alan Isakov
South African singer and musician
73
Nik Bärtsch
Swiss musician, composer, music producer and author.
74
Dewey Redman
American saxophonist
75
Michel Portal
French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
76
Steve Coleman
American saxophonist
77
Bob Sheppard
American musician
