Results for: List_of_jazz_musicians

This is a list of jazz musicians on whom Wikipedia has articles.

Contents 1 Giants of Jazz 2 By period 2.1 Early jazz musicians 2.2 Swing era 2.3 Modern innovators 2.4 Jazz fusion 3 By instrument 3.1 Bagpipes 3.2 Bass 3.3 Cello 3.4 Clarinet 3.5 Cornet 3.6 Drums 3.7 Flute 3.8 French horn 3.9 Guitar 3.10 Multi-instrumentalists 3.11 Organ 3.12 Percussion 3.13 Saxophone 3.14 Trombone 3.15 Trumpet 3.16 Vibraphone 3.17 Violin 3.18 Vocal

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[] Giants of Jazz

By Birthdate
Instrumentalists

• Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
• Louis Armstrong (1901–1971)
• Earl Hines (1903–1983)
• Count Basie (1904–1984)
• Fats Waller (1904–1943)
• Sun Ra (1914-1993)
• Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993)
• Thelonious Monk (1917–1982)
• Charlie Parker (1920–1955)
• Charlie Mingus (1922–1979)
• Oscar Peterson (1925–2007)
• Miles Davis (1926–1991)
• John Coltrane (1926–1967)
• Ornette Coleman (born 1930)
• Chet Baker (1929-1988)

Vocalists

• Billie Holiday (1915–1959)
• Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)
• Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990)

[] By period

[] Early jazz musicians

• Louis Armstrong (1901–1971)
• Sidney Bechet (1897–1959)
• Bix Beiderbecke (1903–1931)
• Buddy Bolden (1877–1930)
• Earl Hines (1903–1983)
• Nick LaRocca (1889–1961) & the members of the "Original Dixieland Jazz Band"
• Jelly Roll Morton (1890–1941)
• Joe "King" Oliver (1885–1938)
• Red Nichols (1905–1965)

[] Swing era

• Count Basie (1904–1984)
• Cab Calloway (1907–1994)
• Benny Carter (1907–2003)
• Charlie Christian (1918–1942)
• Jimmy Dorsey (1904–1957)
• Tommy Dorsey (1905–1956)
• Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
• Benny Goodman (1909–1986)
• Coleman Hawkins (1904–1969)
• Fletcher Henderson (1897–1952)
• Earl Hines (1903–1983)
• Johnny Hodges (1907–1970)
• Jay McShann (1916–2006)
• Glenn Miller (1904–1944)
• George Paxton
• Artie Shaw (1910–2004)
• Fats Waller (1904–1943)
• Ben Webster (1909–1973)
• Paul Whiteman (1890–1967)

[] Modern innovators

• Chet Baker (1929-1988)
• Dave Brubeck (born 1920)
• Ornette Coleman (born 1930)
• John Coltrane (1926–1967)
• Miles Davis (1926–1991)
• Bill Evans (1929–1980)
• Gil Evans (1912–1988)
• Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993)
• Herbie Hancock (born 1940)
• Joe Harriott (1928–1973)
• Charles Mingus (1922–1979)
• Thelonious Monk (1917–1982)
• Charlie Parker (1920–1955)
• Bud Powell (1924–1966)
• Louis Prima (1910-1978)
• Sun Ra (1914–1993)
• Max Roach (1924–2007)
• Sonny Rollins (born 1930)
• Wayne Shorter (born 1933)
• Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929)

[] Jazz fusion

[] By instrument

[] Bagpipes

• Rufus Harley

[] Bass

• Arild Andersen
• Keter Betts
• Jimmy Blanton
• Wellman Braud (1891–1966)
• Ray Brown (1926–2002)
• Steve Brown
• Ron Carter (born 1937)
• Paul Chambers
• Stanley Clarke
• Art Davis
• Brian Day
• Richard Davis
• Pops Foster
• Jimmy Garrison
• Vivien Garry
• Coleridge Goode
• Henry Grimes
• Charlie Haden
• Stuart Hamm
• Milt Hinton
• Dave Holland
• Bill Johnson (1872–1972)
• Scott La Faro
• Cecil McBee
• Christian McBride
• Ron McClure
• Marcus Miller
• Charles Mingus (1922–1979)
• Red Mitchell
• William Parker
• Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987)
• Gary Peacock
• Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
• Oscar Pettiford
• Sage Reynolds
• Steve Rodby
• Clarence Seay
• Slam Stewart
• Brian Q. Torff
• Eberhard Weber
• Gary Willis
• Eugene Wright
• Richard Bona
• Victor Wooten

[] Cello

• Mark Summer

[] Clarinet

• Melanie Mathews
• Benny Goodman

[] Cornet

• Nat Adderley
• Louis Armstrong
• Bix Beiderbecke
• Jeff Hughes
• Red Nichols
• Chris Tyle

[] Drums

[] Flute

• Peter Guidi
• Moe Koffman
• Hubert Laws
• Yusef Lateef
• Herbie Mann
• James Newton
• Sam Rivers (born 1923)
• Jeremy Steig

[] French horn

• Julius Watkins

[] Guitar

Dan Faehnle

[] Multi-instrumentalists

• Sidney Bechet (1897–1959), (clarinet, soprano sax, trumpet, bass, drums)
• Jaki Byard (alto sax, piano)
• Benny Carter (1907–2003), (alto sax, trumpet)
• Alice Coltrane (piano, organ, harp)
• Eric Dolphy (1928–1964), (bass clarinet, clarinet, flute, alto sax)
• Victor Feldman (1934-1987), (piano, vibraphone, conga drum)
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk (flute, nose flute, tenor saxophone, manzello, strich, 'black mystery pipes', clarinet, gong, percussion)
• Yusef Lateef (tenor sax, flute, oboe, many other woodwinds)
• Marcus Miller (born 1959), ( bass, bass clarinet, saxophone, keyboards, guitar)
• Charles Mingus (bass, piano)
• Ray Nance (trumpet, violin)
• Helge Schneider (saxophones, clarinet, piano, trumpet, drums)
• John Surman (saxes, clarinets, piano, synthesizer)
• Frank Macchia (saxes, clarinets, flutes, ethnic winds, synthesizer)

[] Organ

• Alice Coltrane
• Joey DeFrancesco
• Barbara Dennerlein (Hammond-B3, synthesizer, real pipes)
• Bill Doggett
• Charles Earland
• Larry Goldings
• Richard "Groove" Holmes
• Jack McDuff
• Amina Claudine Myers (born 1942)
• John Patton
• Trudy Pitts
• Melvin Rhyne
• Rhoda Scott
• Shirley Scott
• Jimmy Smith
• Lonnie Smith
• Lonnie Liston Smith
• Fats Waller (1904–1943)
• Reuben Wilson
• Larry Young
• Sun Ra (1914–1993)
• Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004)(Piano)
• Harold Ivory Williams Jr. (organ, keyboard, piano, sitar)

[] Percussion

• Xavier Desandre Navarre

[] Saxophone

[] Trombone

Sammy Smith

[] Trumpet

• Chet Baker
• Miles Davis
• Dizzy Gillespie

[] Vibraphone

• Peter Appleyard
• Roy Ayers
• Gary Burton
• John Cocuzzi
• Walt Dickerson
• Stefon Harris
• Lionel Hampton
• Bobby Hutcherson
• Milt Jackson
• Max Miller
• Joe Locke
• Steve Nelson
• Red Norvo
• Chuck Redd
• Jerry Tachoir
• Cal Tjader
• James Westfall

[] Violin

Further information: Musical styles (violin)

• Billy Bang (born 1947)
• Regina Carter (born 1966)
• Stéphane Grappelli (1908–1997)
• Valentin Gregor (born 1963)
• Jean-Luc Ponty (born 1942)
• Stuff Smith (1909–1967)
• Ginger Smock (1920–1995)
• Eddie South (1904-1962)
• Joe Venuti (1903–1978)
• Michael White (born 1933)
• Claude Williams (1908–2004)
• Ray Nance (1913–1976)
• Mark Feldman (born 1955)

[] Vocal

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