On a website called "Listverse", I found one of those rather meaningless lists, " Greatest Jazz Musicians Of All Time" :
Quote:
15. Art Tatum
14. Thelonious Monk
13. Charles Mingus
12. Art Blakey
11. Dizzy Gillespie
10. Max Roach
9. Billie Holiday
8. John Coltrane
7. Count Basie
6. Coleman Hawkins
5. Benny Goodman
4. Miles Davis
3. Charlie Parker
2. Duke Ellington
1. Luis Armstrong
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So far the combined forces of MB have only chosen the three musicians in bold from the list. ( Congrats to ThePhantastasio and Skaligojurah )
I`m going off-list as well, as one of my favorite albums is by Don Cherry. Though knowledgeable people say that he was a limited player, he was something of a pioneer in directing his jazz sensibilities back towards Africa and other parts of the globe, and this track,
Degi-Degi is one of the results :