Cannonball Adderley
DownBeat Hall of Fame - Readers' Poll 1975
Louis Armstrong
DownBeat Hall of Fame - Readers' Poll 1952
Albert Ayler
DownBeat Hall of Fame - Critics' Poll 1983
Count Basie
DownBeat Hall of Fame - Readers' Poll 1958
Sidney Bechet
DownBeat Hall of Fame - Critics' Poll 1968
Art Blakey
DownBeat Hall of Fame - Readers' Poll 1981
Michael Brecker
DownBeat Hall of Fame - Readers' Poll 2007
Clifford Brown
DownBeat Hall of Fame - Critics' Poll 1972
Ray Brown
DownBeat Hall of Fame - Readers' Poll 2003
Dave Brubeck
DownBeat Hall of Fame - Readers' Poll 1994
Carla Bley
DownBeat Hall of Fame - Critics' Poll 2021
