Sun Ra (1914-1993)

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)

Charles Mingus (1922-1979)

Miles Davis (1926-1991)

John Coltrane (1926-1967)

Eric Dolphy (1928-1964)

Cecil Taylor (1929-2018)

Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)

Krzysztof Komeda (1931-1969)

Albert Ayler (1936-1970)

Pharoah Sanders (1940-2022)

Tomasz Stańko (1942-2018)