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John Coltrane

John Coltrane was a highly influential American jazz musician primarily known for his innovative saxophone playing. He d...

Classic Avant Garde Spiritual Modal

9.9 Brilliant

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus was a highly influential American jazz musician primarily known for his innovative bass playing and compl...

Bass Composer Classic Avant Garde

9.7 Brilliant

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Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter is a highly influential jazz musician recognized for his innovative compositions and distinctive tenor sax...

Composer Classic Fusion Post Bop

9.7 Brilliant

4

Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman was a pioneering American jazz musician primarily known for his innovative approach to saxophone and com...

Composer Classic Avant Garde Free Jazz

9.5 Brilliant

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Yusef Lateef

Yusef Lateef was an American saxophonist and flutist who expanded jazz with global instruments, winning a Grammy for Yus...

Classic Spiritual Tenor Sax Flute

8.9 Great

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Carla Bley

Carla Bley was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader noted for the 1971 jazz opera Escalator over the Hill.

Composer Classic Avant Garde Piano

8.8 Great

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Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane was an American pianist, harpist, and composer who fused jazz with Indian devotional music after 1967 and...

Classic Avant Garde Piano Spiritual

8.8 Great

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Albert Ayler

Albert Ayler was an American tenor saxophonist whose raw sound shaped free jazz, especially on the 1964 recording Spirit...

Classic Avant Garde Free Jazz Spiritual

8.7 Great

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Benny Golson

Benny Golson was an American tenor saxophonist and composer, co-founder of the Jazztet and writer of standards such as I...

Composer Classic Arranger Hard Bop

8.7 Great

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Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist whose 1969 recording For Alto became the first full so...

Composer Modern Avant Garde Experimental

8.6 Great

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Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp is an American tenor saxophonist, playwright, and educator, central to 1960s free jazz through Impulse! alb...

Classic Avant Garde Free Jazz Political

8.6 Great

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Sam Rivers

Sam Rivers was an American saxophonist, flutist, and composer, known for avant-garde jazz and his 1964 Blue Note debut F...

Classic Avant Garde Tenor Sax Flute

8.5 Great

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Dave Douglas

Dave Douglas is an American trumpeter and composer who founded Greenleaf Music in 2005 and led projects from Tiny Bell T...

Composer Modern Avant Garde Post Bop

8.3 Great

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Mark Turner

Mark Turner is an American tenor saxophonist known for cerebral modern jazz, including the influential 2001 album Dharma...

Composer Modern Cool Post Bop

8.2 Great

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Jimmy Heath

Jimmy Heath was an American saxophonist, composer, and arranger, a member of the Heath Brothers and writer of the standa...

Composer Classic Arranger Hard Bop

8.2 Great

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Shabaka Hutchings

Shabaka Hutchings is a British saxophonist and bandleader, known for Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming, both active...

Modern UK Jazz Spiritual Tenor Sax

8.1 Great

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Ambrose Akinmusire

Ambrose Akinmusire is an Oakland-born trumpeter who won the 2007 Thelonious Monk competition and later recorded for Blue...

Composer Modern Avant Garde Post Bop

8.0 Great

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Roswell Rudd

Roswell Rudd was an American trombonist whose free-jazz work included Archie Shepp collaborations and the 1964 New York...

Composer Classic Avant Garde Trombone

7.9 Good

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Mary Halvorson

Mary Halvorson is an American guitarist and composer noted for avant-garde jazz, intervallic writing, and winning the 20...

Composer Modern Avant Garde Guitar

7.9 Good

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Hamiet Bluiett

Hamiet Bluiett was an American baritone saxophonist, co-founder of the World Saxophone Quartet in 1977 and a major voice...

Composer Classic Avant Garde Baritone Sax

7.7 Good