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Artist	Genre
1. John Coltrane	Post Bop
2. Bill Frisell	Avant Garde Jazz
3. Keith Jarrett	Post Bop
4. Charles Mingus	Avant Garde Jazz
5. Modern Jazz Quartet	Cool/West Coast Jazz
6. John Zorn	Avant Garde Jazz
7. Charlie Haden	Post Bop
8. Pharoah Sanders	Free Jazz
9. Bill Douglas	Ethnic Fusion
10. Rahsaan Roland Kirk	Post Bop
11. Stan Kenton	Big Band
12. Bobby Hutcherson	Post Bop
13. Dave Holland	Avant Garde Jazz
14. Turtle Island String Quartet	Third Stream
15. Bill Laswell	Ambient Dub
16. Eric Dolphy	Avant Garde Jazz
17. Lalo Schifrin	Film Scores
18. Paul Motian	Post Bop
19. Wayne Horvitz	Avant Garde Jazz
20. The Bad Plus	Post Bop
21. Daddy's Band	Free Jazz
22. Dave Douglas	Avant Garde Jazz
23. James Goudeau Jr	Free Jazz
24. Eugene Chadbourne	Experimental
25. Jason Moran	Post Bop
26. Andrew Hill	Avant Garde Jazz
27. Jan Garbarek	Avant Garde Jazz
28. Paul Bley	Avant Garde Jazz
29. Raymond Scott	Swing
30. Carla Bley	Modern Big Band
31. Ornette Coleman	Free Jazz
32. Tin Hat Trio	Avant Garde Jazz
33. The Lounge Lizards	Avant Garde Jazz
34. Marc Ribot	Avant Garde Jazz
35. Claude Bolling	Third Stream
36. James Carter	Post Bop
37. Yusef Lateef	Hard Bop
38. Chico Hamilton	Cool/West Coast Jazz
39. Min Xiao-Fen	Asia
40. Olu Dara	Avant Garde Jazz
41. John Lewis	Jazz Piano
42. Albert Ayler	Free Jazz
43. Tony Williams	Post Bop
44. Alice Coltrane	Avant Garde Jazz
45. Uri Caine	Avant Garde Jazz
46. Lennie Tristano	Cool
47. Sun Ra	Avant Garde Jazz
48. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey	Free Improvisation
49. Bobby Previte	Avant Garde Jazz
50. Don Byron	Avant Garde Jazz
51. The Vandermark 5	Avant Garde Jazz
52. Leon Thomas	Avant Garde Jazz
53. Roswell Rudd	Free Jazz
54. Jack DeJohnette	Post Bop
55. Gunther Schuller	Third Stream
56. The Flying Luttenbachers	Free Jazz
57. Eddie Daniels	Post Bop
58. Masada String Trio	Avant Garde Jazz
59. Tomasz Stanko	Avant Garde Jazz
60. Vijay Iyer	Post Bop
61. Archie Shepp	Free Jazz
62. Greg Osby	Post Bop
63. Sex Mob	Avant Garde Jazz
64. Fred Frith	Experimental
65. Eberhard Weber	Post Bop
66. SF Jazz Collective	Post Bop
67. Henry Kaiser	Experimental
68. Oliver Lake	Avant Garde Jazz
69. James Blood Ulmer	Avant Garde Jazz
70. Critters Buggin	Avant Garde Jazz
71. Charles Lloyd	Post Bop
72. John Handy	Post Bop
73. Brad Shepik	Avant Garde Jazz
74. Jimmy Giuffre	West Coast Jazz
75. Karl Berger	Avant Garde Jazz
76. New Directions	Post Bop
77. Dewey Redman	Avant Garde Jazz
78. Matthew Shipp	Free Jazz
79. Jacques Loussier	Pop-Jazz
80. Tim Berne	Avant Garde Jazz
81. Adam Benjamin	Avant Garde Jazz
82. Ikue Mori	Avant-Garde
83. Jazz Passengers	Avant Garde Jazz
84. Lee Ranaldo	Free Improvisation
85. Joanne Brackeen	Post Bop
86. Booker Little	Post Bop
87. Don Ellis	Modern Big Band
88. Teo Macero	Third Stream
89. Industrial Jazz Group	Avant Garde Jazz
90. Muhal Richard Abrams	Modern Big Band
91. Miroslav Vitous	Avant Garde Jazz
92. Barney McCall	Avant Garde Jazz
93. Erik Truffaz	Post Bop
94. Happy Apple	Avant Garde Jazz
95. Kenny Wheeler	Post Bop
96. Khan Jamal	Post Bop
97. Cecil Taylor	Free Jazz
98. Curlew	Avant Garde Jazz
99. Bill Graham	No Wave

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