Top 10 Influential Jazz Musicians

Script written by Kelly MacDonald. Jazz: the original art form of the American south. For this list, we considered musicians who made significant contributions to jazz as a genre, and whose work had an historical impact on contemporary music, as a whole. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 most influential jazz musicians.

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