Tenor Saxophon

Frühe Tenorsaxophonisten
  • Prince Robinson (1902 - 1960)
  • Happy Caldwell (1903 - 1978)
  • Stump Evans (1904 - 1928)

Coleman Hawkins (1901 - 1969)
  • Charlie Barnet (1913 - 1991)
  • Tex Beneke (1914)
  • Chu Berry (1908 - 1941)
  • Vido Musso (1913 - 1982)
  • Ben Webster (1909 - 1973)
  • Herschel Evans (1909 - 1939)
  • Dick Wilson (1911 - 1941)
  • Bud Freeman (1906 - 1991)
  • Eddie Miller (1911 - 1991)
  • Babe Russin (1911 - 1984)
  • Boomie Richman (1921)
  • Arnett Cobb (1918 - 1990)
  • Illinois Jacquet (1922)
  • Ike Quebec (1918 - 1963)
  • Jimmy Forrest (1920 - 1980)
  • Harold "Hal" Singer (1919
  • Buddy Tate (1915)
  • Don Byas (1912 - 1972)

Lester Young (1909 - 1959)
  • Budd Johnson (1910 - 1984)
  • Jerry Jerome (1912)
  • Paul Quinichette (1916 - 1983)
  • Al Klink (1915 - 1991)
  • Charlie Parker (1920 - 1955)

Späterer Einfluss von:
  • Gene Ammons (1925 - 1974)
  • Al Cohn (1925 - 1988)
  • John Coltrane
  • Allen Eager (1927)
  • Stan Getz (1927 - 1991)
  • Wardell Gray (1921 - 1955)
  • Lee Konitz (1927)
  • Dexter Gordon (1923 - 1990)
  • Jackie McLean (1932)
  • Warne Marsh (1927 - 1987)
  • James Moody (1925)
  • Art Pepper (1925 - 1982)
  • Herbie Stewart (1926)
  • Zoot Sims (1925 - 1985)
  • Sonny Stitt (1924 - 1982)

Sonny Rollins (1930)
  • Joe Henderson (1937)
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1936 - 1977)
  • Yusef Lateef (1920)
  • Barney Wilen (1937 - 1996)
  • Branford Marsalis (1961)
  • Ricky Ford (1954)
  • David Murray (1955)
  • Junior Cook (1934 - 1992)

John Coltrane (1926 - 1967)
  • Mike Brecker (1949)
  • Bob Berg (1951)
  • Steve Grossman (1951)
  • John Klemmer (1946)
  • Booker Ervin (1930 - 1970)
  • Bill Evans (1957)
  • Azar Lawrence (1953)
  • Dave Young (1912)
  • George Coleman (1935)
  • Joe Farrell (1937 - 1986)
  • Charles Lloyd (1939)
  • Sonny Fortune (1939)
  • Pharaoah Sanders (1940)
  • Dave Liebman (1946)
  • Wayne Shorter (1953)

Free Jazz
  • Albert Ayler (1936 - 1970)
  • David Murray (1955)
  • Joseph Jarman (1937)
  • Archie Shepp (1937)
  • Frank Lowe (1943)
  • Willem Breuker (1944)
  • Rev. Frank Wright (1935 - 1990)
  • Peter Brötzmann (1941)
  • Jan Garbarek (1947)
  • Sam Rivers (1930)
  • Gato Barbieri (1934)
  • Kalaparusha Maurie McIntyre (1936)
  • George Adams (1940 - 1993)