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Kenny Graham

British musician

1

Hugh Masekela

South African jazz trumpeter

2

Abdullah Ibrahim

South African pianist and composer

3

Victor Ntoni

South African musician

4

Jimmy Carl Black

American musician

5

Jim Walker

Canadian musician, drummer

6

Shep Shepherd

American jazz musician

7

Joe Lovano

American jazz flautist, saxophonist, clarinettist

8

Dolly Rathebe

South African actor and musician

9

Frank Butler

American jazz drummer

10

Jonas Gwangwa

South African musician

11

Eugene Chadbourne

American musician and music critic

12

Butch Ballard

American jazz drummer

13

Red Saunders

American musician

14

Louis Barbarin

American jazz drummer

15

Mike Stevens

British musician

16

Art Blakey

American jazz drummer and bandleader

17

Willie Jones, III

American drummer

18

Jabu Khanyile

South African musician

19

Tony Sbarbaro

American jazz drummer

20

Johnny Clegg

South African musician, anthropologist and anti-apartheid icon

21

Al Dreares

American jazz drummer

22

Joe Cinderella

American music educator and jazz musician

23

Danny Barcelona

American musician

24

Tom Cora

American cellist and composer

25

Glover Compton

American musician

26

Guy Warren

Ghanian musician / drummer

27

Christian Vander

French musician

28

Ward Swingle

American jazz singer

29

Dennis Chambers

American musician

30

Ben Smith

American jazz alto saxophonist, tenor saxophonist and clarinetist

31

Tommy Bryant

American musician

32

Sathima Bea Benjamin

South African jazz singer

33

Papa Jack Laine

American musician

34

Donald Ayler

American musician

35

Clyde Stubblefield

American drummer

36

Chuck Flores

American jazz drummer

37

Zu

Italian instrumental/experimental music band

38

John Coltrane

American jazz saxophonist

39

Bill Dowdy

American musician

40

Derek Bailey

British guitarist

41

Eddie Dougherty

American jazz musician

42

Vusi Mahlasela

South African musician

43

Bobby Sanabria

American musician

44

Tommy Benford

American jazz drummer

45

Duck Baker

American guitarist

46

Errol Buddle

Australian jazz musician

47

Jimmy Chamberlin

Drummer, songwriter, Producer

48

Leroy Kirkland

American musician

49

Bill Barber

American musician

50

Todd Cochran

American musician

51

Julian Argüelles

British musician

52

Fred Frith

English musician, composer and improvisor

53

John Dankworth

British musician (1927-2010)

54

Fletcher Allen

American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer

55

Stanley Clarke

American bassist, film composer and founding member of Return to Forever

56

Ian Carr

British trumpeter

57

Steve Smith

American drummer

58

Lou Blackburn

American musician

59

Theodore Carpenter

American trumpeter and jazz musician

60

Herbie Mann

American jazz flutist

61

Buddy Rich

American jazz drummer and bandleader

62

Mulgrew Miller

American pianist

63

John "Jabo" Starks

American drummer