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Jazz and related genres

Abdullah Ibrahim

South African pianist and composer (born 1934)

American jazz saxophonist (1936-1970)

Anthony Braxton

American musician, composer, and philosopher

American jazz drummer and bandleader

American jazz pianist (1909–1956)

American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader

American jazz saxophonist (1909–1973)

American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader

American jazz musician

Jazz singer, songwriter

American jazz pianist

American jazz singer (1915–1959)

Billy Strayhorn

American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger

Bix Beiderbecke

American jazz musician

American pianist and composer

American cornetist and jazz pioneer

Jazz drummer and bandleader

American jazz pianist and poet (1929–2018)

American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader

Charlie Christian

American swing and jazz guitarist

American jazz saxophonist and composer

American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer

American jazz musician

Coleman Hawkins

American jazz saxophonist

American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer

American jazz pianist and composer (1920–2012)

American jazz tenor saxophonist

Dizzy Gillespie

American jazz trumpeter

Django Reinhardt

Romani-French jazz musician (1910–1953)

American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)

American jazz pianist

Ella Fitzgerald

American jazz singer (1917–1996)

American jazz drummer

American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress

American jazz pianist and composer

Fletcher Henderson

American jazz pianist and bandleader

American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer

American band leader, arranger and composer (1904–1944)

American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)

American jazz pianist and composer

South African musician and composer (1939–2018)

British band leader and impresario

James P. Johnson

American pianist and composer (1894-1955)

James Reese Europe

American jazz musician and US Army officer (1881–1919)

Jelly Roll Morton

American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer

American jazz musician and band leader (February 1904–1957)

Jimmy Smith (musician)

American jazz organist

American jazz saxophonist (1926–1967)

American alto saxophonist (1907–1970)

American pianist and composer (born 1945)

American saxophonist from Washington

American jazz cornet player and bandleader

American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer

American jazz saxophonist (1909–1959)

American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor

Louis Armstrong

American jazz trumpeter and singer

American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader

Latin jazz musician

Mary Lou Williams

American pianist

American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer

American jazz musician

American singer and jazz pianist

Original Dixieland Jass Band

American jazz band

Ornette Coleman

American jazz musician and composer (1930–2015)

Canadian jazz pianist, bandleader, composer

American jazz guitarist and composer

American jazz musician and radio personality

American jazz singer and pianist (1924–1990)

American jazz musician

American jazz saxophonist and composer

Stéphane Grappelli

French jazz violinist

American jazz composer and bandleader

American jazz pianist

The Boswell Sisters

Singing trio popular during the Jazz Age

Thelonious Monk

American jazz pianist and composer (1917–1982)

American musician

Toots Thielemans

Belgian jazz musician and harmonica player

Toshiko Akiyoshi

Japanese American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, band master

American jazz saxophonist and composer

American jazz guitarist (1923–1968)

Wynton Marsalis

American jazz musician and educator