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Jose Maria Gil Gargallo
  1. Oscar Peterson
  2. Bill Evans
View Geoff Anderson's All About Jazz profile Geoff Anderson
  1. McCoy Tyner
  2. Ahmad Jamal
  3. Cedar Walton
  4. Mulgrew Miller
  5. Bill Evans
  6. Horace Silver
  7. Art Tatum
  8. Thelonious Monk
  9. Chick Corea
  10. Dave McKenna
  11. Oscar Peterson
  12. Dave Brubeck
  13. Geri Allen
  14. Joe Sample
  15. Gene Harris
  16. Dr. John
  17. John Hicks
  18. Ray Bryant
  19. Jay McShann
  20. Henry Butler
  21. Carla Bley
  22. Phineas Newborn, Jr.
  23. James Williams
  24. John Lewis
  25. Mary Lou Williams
Evaristo Amado
  1. Thelonious Monk
  2. Bill Evans
View Bert Hurst's All About Jazz profile Bert Hurst
  1. Bill Evans
  2. Thelonious Monk
  3. Bud Powell
  4. Count Basie
  5. Duke Ellington
  6. Earl Hines
  7. Jessica Williams
  8. Jaki Byard
  9. Stanley Cowell
  10. James Williams
  11. Kenny Drew
  12. Fats Waller
  13. Kenny Kirkland
  14. Lennie Tristano
  15. Tommy Flanagan
  16. Erroll Garner
  17. Hampton Hawes
  18. McCoy Tyner
  19. Andrew Hill
  20. Ahmad Jamal
  21. Hank Jones
  22. Jelly Roll Morton
  23. Phineas Newborn, Jr.
  24. Don Pullen
  25. George Shearing
Kevin Doucette
  1. Chick Corea
  2. Bill Evans
  3. Oscar Peterson
  4. Thelonious Monk
  5. Art Tatum
Richard Winefield
  1. Bill Evans
  2. Erroll Garner
  3. Oscar Peterson
  4. Ray Bryant
View William Bauza's All About Jazz profile William Bauza
  1. Gene Harris
  2. Dave Brubeck
  3. Ahmad Jamal
  4. Les McCann
  5. Oscar Peterson
View Tim Blake's All About Jazz profile Tim Blake
  1. Bill Evans
  2. Art Tatum
  3. Hampton Hawes
  4. Pete Jolly
  5. Lou Levy
Anthony Walker
  1. Art Tatum
  2. Oscar Peterson
  3. Joe Sample
  4. George Duke
  5. McCoy Tyner
  6. Erroll Garner
  7. Fats Waller
  8. Duke Ellington
  9. Bill Evans
  10. Chick Corea
  11. Thelonious Monk
  12. Tommy Flanagan
  13. Vince Guaraldi
  14. Bud Powell
  15. James P. Johnson
  16. Ramsey Lewis
  17. Barry Harris
  18. Horace Silver
  19. Dorothy Donegan
  20. Hazel Scott
  21. Mary Lou Williams
  22. Count Basie
  23. Marian McPartland
  24. Hank Jones
  25. Ahmad Jamal
Erle Flad
  1. Jessica Williams
babbie
  1. Duke Ellington
  2. Dave Brubeck
  3. Art Tatum
  4. Thelonious Monk
  5. Oscar Peterson
  6. Count Basie
  7. Stan Kenton
  8. Chick Corea
  9. Fats Waller
  10. Ramsey Lewis
  11. Red Garland
  12. Erroll Garner
View Matthew Ireland's All About Jazz profile Matthew Ireland
  1. Bill Evans
ronnapate
  1. Oscar Peterson
  2. Gene Harris
View Dave Bricker's All About Jazz profile Dave Bricker
  1. Vince Guaraldi
  2. Oscar Peterson
Palmer Ward
  1. Bill Evans
  2. Thelonious Monk
Andrew Homzy
  1. Jelly Roll Morton
  2. Jelly Roll Morton
  3. Jelly Roll Morton
  4. Jelly Roll Morton
  5. Jelly Roll Morton
  6. Jelly Roll Morton
  7. Jelly Roll Morton
  8. Jelly Roll Morton
  9. Jelly Roll Morton
  10. Jelly Roll Morton
  11. Jelly Roll Morton
  12. Jelly Roll Morton
  13. Jelly Roll Morton
  14. Jelly Roll Morton
  15. Jelly Roll Morton
  16. Jelly Roll Morton
  17. Jelly Roll Morton
  18. Jelly Roll Morton
  19. Jelly Roll Morton
  20. Jelly Roll Morton
  21. Jelly Roll Morton
  22. Jelly Roll Morton
  23. Jelly Roll Morton
  24. Jelly Roll Morton
  25. Jelly Roll Morton
View Doug Collette's All About Jazz profile Doug Collette
  1. Bill Evans
  2. Chick Corea
Steve Moss
  1. Thelonious Monk
  2. Ahmad Jamal
  3. Horace Silver
  4. Wynton Kelly
  5. Bud Powell
View Women in Jazz Media's All About Jazz profile Women in Jazz Media
  1. Mary Lou Williams
  2. Marian McPartland
  3. Hazel Scott
  4. Carla Bley
  5. Lil Hardin Armstrong
  6. Geri Allen
  7. Shirley Horn
Albert Thompson
  1. Thelonious Monk
  2. McCoy Tyner
  3. Bud Powell
  4. Ahmad Jamal
  5. Cecil Taylor
  6. Harold Mabern
View James Davey's All About Jazz profile James Davey
  1. Chick Corea
  2. McCoy Tyner
  3. Thelonious Monk
  4. Horace Silver
  5. Ahmad Jamal
Tony R. Harrison Sr.
  1. Thelonious Monk
  2. Duke Ellington
  3. Sonny Clark
  4. Bill Evans
  5. Horace Silver
  6. Wynton Kelly
  7. Bud Powell
  8. Tommy Flanagan
  9. Horace Parlan
  10. Kenny Drew
SvenErik Olsen
  1. Bill Evans
  2. Duke Ellington
  3. Thelonious Monk
  4. Teddy Wilson
  5. Herbie Nichols
  6. Oscar Peterson
  7. Elmo Hope
  8. Al Haig
  9. Paul Smith
  10. Mary Lou Williams
  11. McCoy Tyner
  12. Art Tatum
  13. Bud Powell
  14. Alice Coltrane
  15. Red Garland
  16. Jelly Roll Morton
  17. Erroll Garner
  18. Earl Hines
  19. Horace Silver
  20. Bobby Timmons
  21. Billy Strayhorn
  22. Count Basie
  23. James P. Johnson
  24. Fats Waller
  25. Cedar Walton
View Michael Redman's All About Jazz profile Michael Redman
  1. Andrew Hill
  2. Cecil Taylor
  3. Mal Waldron
  4. Oscar Peterson
  5. Alice Coltrane
  6. McCoy Tyner
  7. Ahmad Jamal
  8. Bill Evans
  9. Erroll Garner
  10. Bud Powell
  11. Duke Ellington
  12. Horace Tapscott
  13. Horace Silver
  14. Mary Lou Williams
Ruggirello Frank
  1. Ahmad Jamal
  2. Red Garland
View Perry Alexander's All About Jazz profile Perry Alexander
  1. Bill Evans
  2. Thelonious Monk
  3. Oscar Peterson
  4. Chick Corea
  5. Bud Powell
  6. Scott Joplin
  7. Art Tatum
  8. Freddy Cole
  9. Mary Lou Williams
  10. Count Basie
  11. Billy Strayhorn
  12. Billy Taylor
View Jeff Bennett's All About Jazz profile Jeff Bennett
  1. Bill Evans
  2. Horace Silver
  3. Bud Powell
  4. Dave Brubeck
  5. Thelonious Monk
Rodrigo Algarte
  1. Oscar Peterson
  2. Thelonious Monk
  3. Dave Brubeck
  4. Sonny Clark
  5. Michel Petrucciani
  6. Bill Evans
  7. Dave Frishberg
  8. Bud Powell
  9. Red Garland
Jack Ronnel
  1. Bill Evans
  2. Thelonious Monk
  3. Duke Ellington
  4. Lennie Tristano
  5. Red Garland
  6. Michel Petrucciani
View Jesse Grimmer's All About Jazz profile Jesse Grimmer
  1. Bill Evans

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