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Harry Carney

Harry Carney was an American jazz musician best known for playing the baritone saxophone in the Duke Ellington orchestra...

American Jazz Swing Ellington

9.2 Excellent

2

Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz was an American alto saxophonist and a prominent figure in the cool jazz movement of the 1940s and 1950s. He...

American Jazz Cool Alto

9.1 Excellent

3

Henry Threadgill

Henry Threadgill is an American composer, saxophonist, flutist, and bandleader associated with experimental jazz and Chi...

American Avant Garde Jazz Alto

8.9 Great

4

Don Byas

Don Byas was an American tenor saxophonist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, who established himself in the 1940s swing-era ba...

American Tenor Jazz Swing

8.8 Great

5

Sonny Stitt

Sonny Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist who recorded prolifically on both alto and tenor saxophone across a career...

American Tenor Jazz Bebop

8.7 Great

6

Illinois Jacquet

Illinois Jacquet (1922-2004) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist associated with swing, jump blues, and early rhythm...

American Tenor Jazz Swing

8.4 Great

7

Julius Hemphill

Julius Arthur Hemphill was an American jazz composer and saxophonist known for his work on the alto saxophone. In 1976,...

American Avant Garde Jazz Alto

8.3 Great

8

James Moody

James Moody was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist, recognized primarily for his work on the tenor and alto saxop...

American Tenor Jazz Bebop

8.2 Great

9

Lou Donaldson

Lou Donaldson is an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his blues-drenched playing and significant contributions to...

American Jazz Hard Bop Soul Jazz

8.1 Great

10

Oliver Lake

Oliver Lake is an American avant-garde jazz alto and soprano saxophonist, flutist, and composer. In the late 1960s, he c...

American Avant Garde Jazz Alto

8.1 Great

11

Paul Gonsalves

Paul Gonsalves was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who lived from 1920 to 1974 and spent much of his career in Duke E...

American Tenor Jazz Swing

8.1 Great

12

Arthur Blythe

Arthur Blythe was an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his distinctive, keening tone and versatility across both...

American Avant Garde 1970S Jazz

8.0 Great

13

Chu Berry

Chu Berry, born Leon Brown Berry in 1908, was an American tenor saxophonist prominent during the swing era. He performed...

American Tenor Jazz 1930S

8.0 Great

14

Eddie Davis

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who lived from 1922 to 1986. Known for a forceful, blues-in...

American Tenor Jazz Swing

7.9 Good

15

Herschel Evans

Herschel Evans (1909-1939) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist associated most closely with the Count Basie Orchestra...

American Tenor Jazz Swing

7.9 Good

16

Greg Osby

Greg Osby is an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer who co-founded the M-Base collective in Brooklyn during the...

American Contemporary M Base Jazz

7.8 Good

17

Matana Roberts

Matana Roberts is an American alto saxophonist, composer, improviser, and interdisciplinary artist from Chicago. Roberts...

American Avant Garde Experimental Jazz

7.8 Good

18

Sonny Fortune

Sonny Fortune was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist who lived from 1939 to 2018. Best known as an alto saxophonis...

American Jazz Post Bop Soprano

7.8 Good

19

Charles McPherson

Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist, born in 1939, whose playing is rooted in the bebop tradition ass...

American Jazz Bebop Mainstream

7.8 Good

20

Jimmy Forrest

Jimmy Forrest was an American jazz and rhythm-and-blues tenor saxophonist whose career spanned from the swing era into m...

American Tenor Jazz R&b

7.2 Good