Результаты ежегодного опроса читателей журналом Downbeat / The Readers' Poll
- 1952 Louis Armstrong
- 1953 Glenn Miller
- 1954 Stan Kenton
- 1955 Charlie Parker
- 1956 Duke Ellington
- 1957 Benny Goodman
- 1958 Count Basie
- 1959 Lester Young
- 1960 Dizzy Gillespie
- 1961 Billie Holiday
- 1962 Miles Davis
- 1963 Thelonious Monk
- 1964 Eric Dolphy
- 1965 John Coltrane
- 1966 Bud Powell
- 1967 Billy Strayhorn
- 1968 Wes Montgomery
- 1969 Ornette Coleman
- 1970 Jimi Hendrix
- 1971 Charles Mingus
- 1972 Gene Krupa
- 1973 Sonny Rollins
- 1974 Buddy Rich
- 1975 Cannonball Adderley
- 1976 Woody Herman
- 1977 Paul Desmond
- 1978 Joe Venuti
- 1979 Ella Fitzgerald
- 1980 Dexter Gordon
- 1981 Art Blakey
- 1982 Art Pepper
- 1983 Stéphane Grappelli
- 1984 Oscar Peterson
- 1985 Sarah Vaughan
- 1986 Stan Getz
- 1987 Lionel Hampton
- 1988 Jaco Pastorius
- 1989 Woody Shaw
- 1990 Red Rodney
- 1991 Lee Morgan
- 1992 Maynard Ferguson
- 1993 Gerry Mulligan
- 1994 Dave Brubeck
- 1995 J. J. Johnson
- 1996 Horace Silver
- 1997 Nat King Cole
- 1998 Frank Sinatra
- 1999 Milt Jackson
- 2000 Clark Terry
- 2001 Joe Henderson
- 2002 Antonio Carlos Jobim
- 2003 Ray Brown
- 2004 McCoy Tyner
- 2005 Herbie Hancock
- 2006 Jimmy Smith
- 2007 Michael Brecker
- 2008 Keith Jarrett
- 2009 Freddie Hubbard
- 2010 Muhal Richard Abrams
- 2011 Ahmad Jamal
- 2012 Ron Carter
- 2013 Pat Metheny
- 2014 B.B. King
- 2015 Tony Bennett
- 2016 Phil Woods
- 2017 Wynton Marsalis
- 2018 Ray Charles
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