Creative Improvised Music Projects, usually abbreviated CIMP or C.I.M.P., is an American jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 record label. It is associated with Cadence Magazine and Cadence Jazz Records

Cadence Jazz Records

Cadence Jazz is an American record label specializing in noncommercial jazz music. It is associated with Cadence Magazine.Cadence Jazz was founded by Bob Rusch in Redwood, New York in 1980...

. Acoustically, the label is noted for its minimal use of electronic processing and its spare microphoning technique. Bob Rusch

Bob Rusch

Bob Rusch is an American jazz critic and record producer.Rusch studied clarinet and drums in his youth. During the 1970s, Rusch played drums in workshops with Jaki Byard and Cedar Walton. He wrote for the magazines Down Beat, Jazz Journal and Jazz Forum in the 1970s before founding Cadence...

 founded CIMP in 1995, with his children Marc and Kara working as recording engineer and album artwork producer, respectively. The label recorded its first session in June 1995, featuring Evan Parker

Evan Parker

Evan Shaw Parker is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded...

, Barry Guy

Barry Guy

Barry John Guy is a British composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of orchestras in the UK and Europe...

, Paul Lytton

Paul Lytton

Paul Lytton is an English free jazz percussionist.Lytton began on drums at age 16. He played jazz in London in the late 1960s while taking lessons on the tabla from P.R. Desai. In 1969 he began experimenting with free improvisational music, working in a duo with saxophonist Evan Parker. After...

, and Joe McPhee

Joe McPhee

Joe McPhee is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone...

. This recording was issued in 1996, and over the next five years the label released over 120 albums, primarily documenting avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which ...

. Most of its releases are recorded in The Spirit Room, a studio in Rossie, New York

Rossie, New York

Rossie is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 787 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the sister of an early land owner....

.

Eighteen compilations of music released on the label have been released, titled the Cimposium series.CIMPosium, Vol. 1 Allmusic reviewCIMPosium, Vol. 12 Allmusic review

Artists

• Aaron James
• Adam Lane
• Ahmed Abdullah
  Ahmed Abdullah
  Ahmed Abdullah is a jazz trumpeter. He began playing when he was 13 years old. By the 1970s he was performing in New York's loft scene, and joined the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1976. Since that time he has played with Chico Freeman, Ronnie Boykins, Charles Brackeen, Steve Reid, John Hicks and Marion Brown...
  
  
• Akira Ando
• Alex Blake
  Alex Blake
  Alex Blake is a post bop jazz double-bassist who began his career with Sun Ra in his band Arkestra. A live performance compilation was released by Bubble Core Records in 2000 titled Now Is the Time: Live at the Knitting Factory...
  
  
• Alex Harding
• Alex Horwitz
• Allen Nelson
• Alvin Benjamin Carter, Jr.
• Alvin Benjamin Carter, Sr.
• Anders Griffen
  Anders Griffen
  Anders Griffen is a drummer, composer, and trumpet player from Brooklyn, New York. Griffen works in a range of contexts including folk, jazz, pop, improvised music, and modern dance theater.-Career:...
  
  
• Andrei Strobert
• Andrew Cheshire
  Andrew Cheshire
  Andrew Cheshire is an American jazz guitarist.As a child, Andrew played the piano, but switched to the guitar at age 10. While majoring in fine art in high school, he played jazz in local bands around Long Island. By 1980, Andrew moved to Brooklyn where he began attending jam sessions at the clubs...
  
  
• Andrew Cyrille
  Andrew Cyrille
  Andrew Charles Cyrille is an avant-garde jazz drummer.Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York into a family with a mother from Haiti. He began studying science at St...
  
  
• Andrew Lamb
  Andrew Lamb
  Andrew Lamb , bishop of Brechin and bishop of Galloway, was probably son or relative of Andrew Lamb of Leith, a lay member of the general assembly of 1560...
  
  
• Andrew White
  Andrew White (saxophonist)
  Andrew White is an American jazz/R'n'B multi-instrumentalist , musicologist and publisher.-Biography:...
  
  
• Andy Eulau
• Andy Laster
• Anthony Braxton
  Anthony Braxton
  Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s...
  
  
• Ari Brown
  Ari Brown
  Ari Brown is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and pianist.Brown grew up in Chicago and attended Wilson College, where he met musicians such as Jack DeJohnette, Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, and Joseph Jarman. He played piano in R&B and soul outfits int the 1960s, then switched to saxophone...
  
  
• Art Baron
  Art Baron
  Art Baron is an American jazz trombonist. He also plays didgeridoo, conch shell, penny-whistle, alto and bass recorder, and tuba.Baron is an alumnus of the Berklee College of Music...
  
  
• Arthur Blythe
  Arthur Blythe
  Arthur Blythe is an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. His stylistic voice has a distinct vibrato and he plays within the post-bop subgenre of jazz.- Biography :...
  
  
• Arthur Harper
• Assif Tsahar
  Assif Tsahar
  Assif Tsahar is an Israeli tenor saxophonist and bass clarinetist. He has lived in New York City since 1990.He has performed with Cecil Taylor, Butch Morris, William Parker, Mat Maneri, Hamid Drake, Peter Kowald, Susie Ibarra, Rashied Ali, Warren Smith, Wilbur Morris, Le Quan Ninh, John Tchicai,...
  
  
• Atu Harold Murray
• Avram Fefer
  Avram Fefer
  Avram Fefer is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and band leader, currently residing in New York City. He has been performing and recording internationally since 1990...
  
  
• Barry Altschul
  Barry Altschul
  Barry Altschul is a free jazz drummer who gained fame in the late 1960s with the pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea.-Biography:...
  
  
• Barry Guy
  Barry Guy
  Barry John Guy is a British composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of orchestras in the UK and Europe...
  
  
• Ben Koen
• Berne Nix
• Bert Harris
  Bert Harris
  Albert Bert Walter Allen Harris was a professional racing cyclist. He was raised in Leicester and attended Holy Trinity School...
  
  
• Bhob Rainey
• Bill Gagliardi
• Bill Lowe
• Bill Meek
  Bill Meek
  William M. Meek was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State University , the University of Houston , Southern Methodist University , and the University of Utah , compiling a career college football record of 78–88–7.-Early life:Meek was born in...
  
  
• Billy Bang
  Billy Bang
  Billy Bang was an American free jazz violinist and composer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Billy Pierce
  Billy Pierce
  Walter William Pierce is a former left-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the Chicago White Sox. He was the team's star pitcher between 1952 and 1961, and was named the American League's top pitcher in 1956 and 1957 after being runner-up in both 1953...
  
  
• Blaise Siwula
  Blaise Siwula
  Blaise Siwula is a New York City based free jazz musician and curator.Blaise Siwula was born in Detroit, Michigan, on 02/19/1950. He moved to New York City in 1989 with his family, hoping to enter the music scene there. He has collaborated on recordings with many artists, including Cecil Taylor. He...
  
  
• Bob Butta
• Bob Celusak
• Bob Fraser
  Bob Fraser
  Bob Fraser was an American television producer, writer and actor.Fraser's most notable work is on the TV show Benson, where he played a recurring role as a state senator for 6 seasons, in addition to serving as a story editor, writer, and later producer of the series .After Benson, Fraser and...
  
  
• Bob Magnuson
• Bob Marsh
• Bob Pilkington
• Bob Stewart
• Bob Washington
• Bobby Bradford
  Bobby Bradford
  Bobby Lee Bradford is an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, bandleader, and composer. He is noted for his work with Ornette Coleman...
  
  
• Bobby Few
  Bobby Few
  Bobby Few is an American jazz pianist.Few was raised in Shaker Heights, a neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, and studied classical piano. He knew Albert Ayler as a youth, and the pair studied jazz and played together in high school...
  
  
• Bobby Zankel
• Brain Settles
• Brandon Evans
• Brett Allen
• Brian Smith
  Brian Smith (musician)
  Brian Smith is a jazz saxophonist and flautist from New Zealand.Smith studied piano in his youth but was primarily an autodidact on reeds. He played locally in pop and jazz groups before moving to England in 1964, where he played with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated...
  
  
• Briggan Krauss
• Bruce Eisenbeil
• Bryan Carrott
• Burton Greene
  Burton Greene
  Burton Greene is a free jazz pianist born in Chicago, Illinois, though most known for his work in New York City. He has explored a variety of genres, including avant-garde jazz and the Klezmer medium.-Biography:...
  
  
• Byard Lancaster
  Byard Lancaster
  Byard Lancaster is a jazz multi-instrumentalist whose primary instrument is the alto saxophone. He attended two colleges, one of them for music, before eventually deciding to pursue an education at the Berklee College of Music, then moving to New York...
  
  
• Calvin Hill
  Calvin Hill
  Calvin G. Hill is a retired American football running back who had a 12-year NFL career from 1969 to 1981. He played for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins and Cleveland Browns...
  
  
• Carl Grubbs
• Carlos Ward
  Carlos Ward
  Carlos Ward is a jazz alto saxophonist and flautist. He is best known as a sideman.His first instrument was the clarinet at age 13 when he lived in Seattle, Washington...
  
  
• Carmen Intorre
• Casey Benjamin
  Casey Benjamin
  Casey Benjamin is a saxophonist, keyboardist, producer and songwriter from South Jamaica Queens, New York City. He attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and the The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in Manhattan...
  
  
• Chad Taylor
  Chad Taylor
  Chad Taylor is a guitarist in the bands The Gracious Few and Live. Live have sold over 20 million records, including the 8x platinum album Throwing Copper.-Biography:...
  
  
• Charles Burnham
• Charles Eubanks
• Charles Moffett
  Charles Moffett
  Charles Moffett was a free jazz drummer.Moffett began his musical career as a trumpeter before switching to drums. He is probably best known for his part in Ornette Coleman's trio with David Izenzon in the 1960s. He also appeared on other important albums of that period, such as Archie Shepp's...
  
  
• Charlie Kohlhase
• Chris Dahlgren
• Chris Jonas
• Chris Kelsey
  Chris Kelsey
  Chris Kelsey is an American jazz musician, composer, and journalist who was born in Bangor, Maine. Kelsey is one of the few prominent jazz musicians to focus exclusively on the soprano saxophone....
  
  
• Chris Lightcap
  Chris Lightcap
  Chris Lightcap is an American bassist and composer from Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He has performed or recorded with Marc Ribot, Regina Carter, Craig Taborn, Mark Turner, Joe Morris, Sheila Jordan, James Carter, Butch Morris, Ben Monder, Tom Harrell and others.Lightcap released an album called Lay-Up...
  
  
• Chris Matthay
• Chris McCann
  Chris McCann
  Christopher John "Chris" McCann is an Irish footballer currently playing for Burnley.- Burnley :Brought over to Lancashire from the Irish club Home Farm, Chris progressed through the youth system at Burnley, and made his senior debut in the 2005–06 season, coming onto the pitch as an early...
  
  
• Chris Sullivan
• Christopher Cauley
• Claire Daly
• Claude Lawrence
• Cliff Barbaro
• Cody Moffett
• Craig McIver
• Curt Warren
• Damion Reid
• Damon Short
• Daniel Carter
  Daniel Carter (musician)
  Daniel Carter is an American free jazz saxophone, flute, clarinet, and trumpet player active mainly in New York City since the early 1970s...
  
  
• Darrell Katz
• Dave Burrell
  Dave Burrell
  Davis Burrell is an American jazz instrumentalist, most notably on the piano. He has worked for many jazz musicians including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown and David Murray.- Biography :...
  
  
• Dave Hofstra
• David Bindman
• David Bond
• David Brandt
  David Brandt
  David James Brandt is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and San Diego Chargers . He played college football at the University of Michigan...
  
  
• David Eyges
• David Haney
  David Haney
  David Haney is a jazz pianist, composer and bandleader.- Early life:While he was an infant his family moved Fresno, California to Calgary, Canada.David began piano studies at the age of nine adding guitar at 15....
  
  
• David Harris
• David Murray
• David Prentice
  David Prentice
  David Prentice is an English artist and former art teacher. In 1964 he was one of the four founder members of Birmingham's Ikon Gallery....
  
  
• David Schnitter
  David Schnitter
  David Schnitter is an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist.Schnitter played clarinet as a youth and switched to tenor sax at age 15. After moving to New York City he played with Ted Dunbar and then became a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1974 to 1979...
  
  
• David Taylor
  David Taylor
  - Sports :*David Taylor *David Taylor , former Welsh footballer*David Taylor , FA Cup winner with Bradford City in 1911 and 1914 with Burnley...
  
  
• David Wertman
• David White
• Denis Charles
  Denis Charles
  -Biography:Charles was born in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, and first played bongos at age seven with local ensembles in the Virgin Islands. In 1945 he moved to New York, and gigged frequently around town. In 1954 he began working with Cecil Taylor, and the pair collaborated through 1958. Following...
  
  
• Denman Maroney
  Denman Maroney
  Denman Maroney is a jazz musician who plays what he calls "hyperpiano." Hyperpiano "involves stopping, sliding, bowing, plucking, striking and strumming the strings with copper bars, aluminum bowls, rubber blocks, plastic boxes and other household objects." This is sometimes done with one hand...
  
  
• Derrek Phillips
• Devorah Day
• Dom Minasi
• Dominic Duval
  Dominic Duval
  Dominic Duval is an American free jazz bassist.Since the 1990s, Duval has been active principally on the New York City jazz scene. He did not begin recording regularly until the 1990s, but since then has appeared on a very large number of albums, particularly on the labels CIMP, Cadence Jazz, and...
  
  
• Dominick Farinacci
  Dominick Farinacci
  Dominick Farinacci is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and big band leader, is currently signed to major label E1 Music. Farinacci was one of 18 artists worldwide invited to be a part of the inaugural class of the Jazz Studies Program at The Juilliard...
  
  
• Donald Robinson
• Donald Smith
  Donald Smith
  Donald Smith may refer to:* Donald Smith , head college football coach at Kentucky State University * Donald Smith , English cricketer* Donald Smith , Australian tenor...
  
  
• Donna Cumberbatch
• Doug Webb
  Doug Webb
  Doug Webb is an American musician.Doug was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1960 and moved to California at the age of 3. He is a graduate of Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California and received his Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He began playing...
  
  
• Drew Gress
  Drew Gress
  Drew Gress is an American jazz double-bassist and composer born in Trenton, New Jersey, raised in the Philadelphia area, and currently based in New York City.-Biography:...
  
  
• Dwight James
  Dwight James
  Dwight James is a Barbadian international footballer who plays for Notre Dame, as a defender.-Career:James played for the Barbadian national team between 2004 and 2007.-References:...
  
  
• Dylan Taylor
  Dylan Taylor
  Dylan Taylor is a Canadian actor, best known for playing Steve Wassenfelder, the ship’s out of shape theoretical physicist on the TV series Defying Gravity.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Ed Crockett
• Ed Schuller
  Ed Schuller
  Edwin G. Schuller is an American jazz bassist and composer.Schuller was born in New York City; his father is Gunther Schuller and his younger brother is drummer George Schuller. Schuller learned clarinet and guitar as a child and switched to bass at age 15; that same year he had his first...
  
  
• Ed Ware
• Ed Watkins
  Ed Watkins
  James Edward "Ed" Watkins , was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played in with the Philadelphia Phillies.Watkins played in 1 game, going 0-3, with a walk....
  
  
• Edgar Bateman
• Edward Perraud
• Ehran Elisha
• Elliot Levin
• Elliott Levin
• Eric Hipp
• Erik Torrente
• Ernest Dawkins
  Ernest Dawkins
  Ernest Dawkins is an American jazz saxophonist, principally active in free jazz and post-bop.Ernest Khabeer Dawkins was a neighbor of Anthony Braxton as a child. He played bass and drums early in life before switching to saxophone in 1973...
  
  
• Ernie Krivda
  Ernie Krivda
  Ernie Krivda is a jazz saxophone player.Ernie Krivda began his professional career in 1963 with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. During the 1960s he played in bands of two Cleveland legends, organist Eddie Baccus and guitarist Bill DeArango...
  
  
• ESATrio
• Ethan Mann
• Evan Parker
  Evan Parker
  Evan Shaw Parker is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded...
  
  
• Francois Grillot
• Frank Lowe
  Frank Lowe
  Frank Lowe was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer.Born and brought up in Memphis, Tennessee, Lowe took up the tenor saxophone and then moved to San Francisco...
  
  
• Fred Hess
  Fred Hess
  Fred Hess is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Hess was raised in New Jersey and studied at Trenton State College. His early experiences include studies with saxophonist Phil Woods, a stint with bandleader Fred Waring, and composing music for the world premiere of a Sam Shepard play...
  
  
• Fred Lonberg-Holm
  Fred Lonberg-Holm
  Fred Lonberg-Holm is an American cellist based in Chicago. He relocated from New York City to Chicago in 1995.Lonberg-Holm is most identified with playing free improvisation and free jazz. He is also a composer of concert works...
  
  
• Frode Gjerstad
• Gebhard Ullmann
• Geoff Mann
• George Cartwright
  George Cartwright
  George Cartwright VC, ED was a British-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early life:Cartwright was born in South Kensington, London, on 9 December...
  
  
• George Cremaschi
• George Garzone
  George Garzone
  George Garzone is a saxophonist and jazz educator residing in New York city.Saxophonist George Garzone is a member of The Fringe, a jazz trio founded in 1972 that includes bassist John Lockwood and drummer Bob Gullotti, that performs regularly in the Boston area and has toured world wide. The...
  
  
• George Schuller
  George Schuller
  George Schuller is an American jazz drummer. He is the son of composer Gunther Schuller.He was born in New York City and raised in Boston, graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music with a BA in jazz performance in 1982. He then played locally with Herb Pomeroy, Ran Blake, George...
  
  
• Gerry Hemingway
  Gerry Hemingway
  Gerry Hemingway is an American jazz composer and percussionist.He has performed with Ernst Reijseger, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Leo Smith, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Reggie Workman, Michael Moore, Oliver Lake, Marilyn Crispell, Christy Doran, John Wolf Brennan, Don...
  
  
• Glenn Spearman
  Glenn Spearman
  Glenn Spearman was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He was specifically associated with free jazz and experimental music....
  
  
• Grachan Moncur III
  Grachan Moncur III
  Grachan Moncur III is an American jazz trombonist who has mostly played free jazz, as well as being a prolific composer. He is the son of jazz bassist Grachan Moncur II and the nephew of jazz saxophonist Al Cooper.-Biography:...
  
  
• Greg Badolato
• Greg Maker
• Greg Millar
• Gregg Bendian
  Gregg Bendian
  Gregg Bendian is a jazz percussionist and composer, primarily a vibraphonist. He was born on July 13, 1963 in Englewood, New Jersey.Bendian studied under Noel DaCosta. He has played and recorded with Nels Cline, Pat Metheny, Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann, Steve Hunt, Gary Lucas and Cecil Taylor...
  
  
• Gregor Huebner
• Hamiet Bluiett
  Hamiet Bluiett
  Hamiet Bluiett is an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. His primary instrument is the baritone saxophone, and he is considered one of the finest living players of this instrument...
  
  
• Hands Indigo
• Harold E. Smith
• Harris Eisenstadt
• Harvey Sorgen
• Herb Robertson
  Herb Robertson
  Clarence “Herb” Robertson is a jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist. He was born in New Jersey and attended the Berklee School of Music...
  
  
• Hilliard Greene
• Hiroaki Honshuku
• Howard Cooper
  Howard Cooper
  Howard Pennett Cooper was a first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire from 1971 to 1980, and for Northern Transvaal in the 1973/4 season...
  
  
• Howard Johnson
  Howard Johnson (jazz musician)
  Howard Lewis Johnson in Montgomery, Alabama, is an American jazz musician known mainly for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone, although he also plays the bass clarinet, trumpet and other reed instruments....
  
  
• Hugh Ragin
  Hugh Ragin
  Hugh Ragin is an American jazz trumpeter.Ragin was raised in Houston and began on trumpet when he was in eighth grade. After playing in the Houston All-City High School Orchestra, which toured the UK, he took his bachelor's in music education at the University of Houston and his master's in trumpet...
  
  
• Igal Foni
• Ivo Perelman
  Ivo Perelman
  Ivo Perelman is a Brazilian free jazz saxophonist born in Sao Paulo.Perelman learned to play guitar, cello, clarinet, trombone, and piano while young, and concentrated on tenor sax from age 19. He attended the Berklee College of Music for one semester and then dropped out, moving to Los Angeles in...
  
  
• J. Brunka
• J.D. Allen
• J.R. Mitchell
• Jack Wright
• James Finn
  James Finn
  James Finn was a British Consul in Jerusalem, in the then Ottoman Empire . He arrived in 1845 with his wife Elizabeth Anne Finn. Finn was a devout Christian, who belonged to the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews, but who did not engage in missionary work during his years in...
  
  
• Jason Hwang
• Jason Oettel
• Jay Rosen
• Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra
• Jean Derome
  Jean Derome
  Jean Derome is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist and composer. A prominent figure in the Montreal musique actuelle scene, Derome has been a member of a number of experimental jazz and rock groups, and has appeared on over 30 albums, including seven solo albums...
  
  
• Jean-Luc Guionnet
• Jeff Halsey
• Jeff Lederer
• Jeff Williams
• Jemeel Moondoc
  Jemeel Moondoc
  Jemeel Moondoc is a jazz saxophonist who plays alto saxophone. He is a proponent of a highly improvisational style....
  
  
• Jeremy Carlstedt
• Jeremy Udden
• Jesse Dulman
• Jim Gray
• Jim Mosher
• Jim Odgren
• Jimmy Halperin
• Jimmy Weinstein
• Jims Hobbs
• Joe Daley
  Joe Daley
  For the professional golfer, see Joe Daley Thomas Joseph Daley is a former National Hockey League and World Hockey Association goalkeeper for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings, and Winnipeg Jets....
  
  
• Joe Fiedler
• Joe Fonda
  Joe Fonda
  Joe Fonda is an American jazz bassist.Fonda was born in Amsterdam, New York to parents who both played jazz. He played guitar as a youth but switched to bass guitar later on. He studied bass at Berklee College of Music, where he also began playing upright bass. He played in the New Haven,...
  
  
• Joe Giardullo
• Joe McPhee
  Joe McPhee
  Joe McPhee is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone...
  
  
• Joe Rosenberg
• Joe Ruddick
• John Bacon, Jr.
• John Bickerton
  John Bickerton
  John Edward Bickerton is an English golfer.Bickerton was born in Redditch, England. He turned professional in 1991....
  
  
• John Bollinger
  John Bollinger
  John A. Bollinger is an American author, financial analyst, contributor to the field of technical analysis and the developer of Bollinger Bands. His book Bollinger on Bollinger Bands, John Bollinger, McGraw Hill, 2002, ISBN 978-0-07-137368-5, has been translated into eight languages.Chinese ,...
  
  
• John Carlson
• John Gunther
  John Gunther
  John Gunther was an American journalist and author whose success came primarily in the 1940s and 1950s with a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books...
  
  
• John Hebert
• John Heward
• John Lockwood
• John O'Gallagher
• John Oswald
  John Oswald
  John Oswald may refer to:* John Oswald , Scottish philosopher, writer, and revolutionary* John Oswald , British general...
  
  
• John Pierce
• John Swana
• John Tchicai
  John Tchicai
  John Martin Tchicai is a Danish jazz saxophonist. He was one of the earliest European free jazz musicians. He is of Danish and Congolese descent....
  
  
• John Turner
  John Turner
  John Napier Wyndham Turner, PC, CC, QC is an English Canadian lawyer and retired politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984....
  
  
• Jon Hazilla
• Jorge Sylvester
• Joris Dudli
• Joseph Bowie
  Joseph Bowie
  Joseph Bowie is an American bandleader, trombonist, and founder of the seminal jazz fusion band, Defunkt. The group has been blending jazz with funk and punk music for more than three consecutive decades....
  
  
• Joseph Jarman
  Joseph Jarman
  Joseph Jarman , is a jazz musician, composer and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He is perhaps best known as one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Early life:Jarman grew up in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  
• Joseph Scianni
• Joy Rosen
• Julian Priester
  Julian Priester
  Julian Priester is an American jazz trombonist and composer.He has played with many artists including Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kahil El'Zabar
  Kahil El'Zabar
  Kahil EL'Zabar is a jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer. He regularly records for Delmark Records. He joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in the early 1970s, and became its chairman in 1975...
  
  
• Kahlil Kwame Bell
• Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
  Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
  Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre is an American free jazz tenor saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist.McIntyre was born in Clarksville, Arkansas but his family moved to Chicago when he was a child. He began playing drums at seven, then switched to saxophone...
  
  
• Keiichi Hashimoto
• Kelly Meashey
• Kelvyn Bell
• Ken Filiano
  Ken Filiano
  Kenneth S. Filiano is an American jazz double bassist. He is associated with the modern free improvisational scene....
  
  
• Ken Schaphorst
  Ken Schaphorst
  Ken Schaphorst is a composer, performer, and educator currently chairing the Jazz Studies and Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Before moving to Boston in 2001, Schaphorst served as Director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin for ten years...
  
  
• Ken Simon
• Ken Wessel
• Kevin Norton
  Kevin Norton
  Kevin Norton is a percussionist and composer active in the New York City jazz and contemporary music scenes. He has performed and recorded with a diverse group of musicians, including Anthony Braxton, Paul Dunmall, Milt Hinton, Fred Frith, David Krakauer, Joelle Leandre, Frode Gjerstad and Wilber...
  
  
• Kevin O'Neil
• Khan Jamal
• Konrad Bauer
  Konrad Bauer
  Konrad Bauer was a Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II. Bauer claimed 57 aerial victories, 39 over the Western Front and 18 over the Eastern Front...
  
  
• Ku-umba Frank Lacy
• Kurt Kotheimer
• Kyle Hernandez
• Laura Andel
  Laura Andel
  -Biography:Laura Andel was born in Argentina of Moldovian heritage, and began music lessons in Buenos Aires at the age of five. She played woodwind as a child and began to compose at an early age...
  
  
• Lee Shaw
• Leo Huppert
• Lisle Ellis
  Lisle Ellis
  Lisle Ellis, is a Canadian composer and bassist who is known for his improvisational style and use of electronics.-Biography:...
  
  
• Lonnie Solaway
• Lou Grassi
• Lucian Ban
  Lucian Ban
  -Biography:Raised in the tiny farming village of Teaca, , Ban grew up listening to folk songs performed at weddings, birthdays, holidays and other celebrations....
  
  
• Luqman Ali
  Luqman Ali
  Luqman Ali was an American jazz drummer and multi-instrumentalist primarily known for his work with the Sun Ra Arkestra.-References:...
  
  
• Luther Gray
• Luther Thomas
  Luther Thomas
  thumb|right|upright=2|Dizzazz in June 1981. From left to right : Luther Thomas , Danny Petroni , Donald Nicks , Marvin Neal , Warren Benbow , John K. Mulkerin and Billy "Spaceman" Paterson...
  
  
• Mads Thorsen
• Malachi Favors
  Malachi Favors
  Malachi Favors was a noted American jazz bassist best known for his work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Biography:...
  
  
• Marc Edwards
  Marc Edwards (drummer)
  Marc Edwards is a free jazz drummer who has played and recorded with artists such as Cecil Taylor, Charles Gayle, and David S. Ware. His influences include Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich. He is currently playing with a project with Weasel Walter...
  
  
• Marc Pompe
• Marc Sabatella
• Marco Eneidi
• Marilyn Crispell
  Marilyn Crispell
  Marilyn Crispell is an American jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:Crispell studied classical piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been a resident of Woodstock, NY since 1977 when she came to study and teach at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio...
  
  
• Mark Dresser
  Mark Dresser
  Mark Dresser is an American double bass player and composer.-Biography:He has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of "new" jazz composition and improvisation. For ten years he performed with the Anthony Braxton Quartet, as well as diverse groups led by Ray Anderson, Tim Berne,...
  
  
• Mark Feldman
  Mark Feldman
  Mark Feldman is an American jazz violinist.Feldman worked in Chicago from 1973 to 1980, and in Nashville, Tennessee from 1980 to 1986. He worked in New York City and Western Europe from 1986. Feldman often works with John Zorn, Sylvie Courvoisier, John Abercrombie, The Masada String Trio, Dave...
  
  
• Mark Helias
  Mark Helias
  Mark Helias is an American jazz double bass player and composer born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.He did not begin playing the double bass until the age of 20, graduating from Yale University's School of Music with a Masters degree in 1976. He has also studied at Rutgers University...
  
  
• Mark Johnson
  Mark Johnson
  Mark Johnson may refer to:Academics*Mark Johnson , philosophy professor*Mark H. Johnson , developmental neuroscience professorSports*In baseball:**Mark Johnson...
  
  
• Mark Whitecage
  Mark Whitecage
  Mark Whitecage is an American jazz reedist.Whitecage played in his father's family ensemble as early as age six. In the 1980s, he played with Gunter Hampel's Galaxy Dream Band, Jeanne Lee, and Saheb Sarbib. After touring solo in Europe in 1986, he put together two bands as a leader, Liquid Time and...
  
  
• Marshall Allen
  Marshall Allen
  Marshall Belford Allen is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz alto saxophone player. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and EVI ....
  
  
• Mary Anne Driscoll
• Mary LaRose
• Masa Kamaguchi
• Masashi Harada
• Masujaa
• Mat Marucci
• Matt Bauder
• Matt Davis
• Matt Engle
• Matt Langley
• Matt Lavelle
  Matt Lavelle
  Matt Lavelle ,.began his Music career with Hildred Humphries,.a Swing era veteran that played with Count Basie,Billie Holiday,and many others of the time.Lavelle played Trumpet during this time as a member of Hildred's band.Lavelle then made his move on New York City to go through the trials of all...
  
  
• Matt Penman
• Matt Wilson
  Matt Wilson
  Matthew Wilson may refer to:* Matt Wilson , Irish international footballer of 1880s.* Matt Wilson , of Trip Shakespeare and the Flops* Matt Wilson , New York jazz drummer & composer* Matthew Wilson, British rally driver...
  
  
• Melani Dyer
• Michael Attias
• Michael Bisio
• Michael Bocchicchio
• Michael Carvin
  Michael Carvin
  Michael W. Carvin is an American jazz drummer. He has performed with Mickey Bass, Charles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, B. B. King, Jackie McLean, Pharoah Sanders, Lonnie Liston Smith, and Clive Stevens.- Notes :...
  
  
• Michael Logan
  Michael Logan (musician)
  Michael Logan is an African American jazz bassist] . He worked with, among others, Muhal Richard Abrams, Walter Bishop jr. and Clifford Jordan.-Discography:*1990: Night Out with Cecil Brooks III, Benny Green, Joe Ford, Houston Person...
  
  
• Michael Marcus
  Michael Marcus (musician)
  Michael Marcus is a American jazz clarinetist and multi woodwind player & Composer....
  
  
• Michael Rabinowitz
• Michael Taylor
• Mike Bisio
• Mike Bullock
  Mike Bullock
  Mike Bullock is an American author and musician born in Washington, DC. Bullock began writing fiction, non-fiction and poetry in the 1980s. He worked professionally in the music and comic book industries since 1986 and is best known as the creator of comic book series Lions, Tigers and Bears from...
  
  
• Mike DeMicco
• Mike Peipman
• Mike Sarin
• Nate Wooley
• Ned Rothenberg
  Ned Rothenberg
  Ned Rothenberg is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He specializes in woodwind instruments, including the alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, and shakuhachi...
  
  
• Newman Baker
• Newman Taylor Baker
  Newman Taylor Baker
  Newman Taylor Baker is a jazz drummer best known for his 26 year association with Billy Harper, and his work with Henry Threadgill, Billy Bang, Henry Grimes, and Leroy Jenkins, and Diedre Murray....
  
  
• Nick Tountas
• Nils Wogram
  Nils Wogram
  Nils Wogram is a jazz trombonist. He began classical study at twelve and joined the German Federal Jazz Orchestra in 1989. In 1992 he moved to New York City where he lived for a few years...
  
  
• Noah Howard
  Noah Howard
  Noah Howard was an American free jazz alto saxophonist.-Biography:An American born in New Orleans, Howard played music from childhood in his church. He first learned trumpet and later switching to alto, tenor and soprano saxophone. He was an innovator influenced by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler...
  
  
• Norma Zocher
• Odean Pope
  Odean Pope
  Odean Pope is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Pope was raised in Philadelphia, where he learned from Ray Bryant while young...
  
  
• Okkyung Lee
• Ori Kaplan
  Ori Kaplan
  Ori Kaplan is a jazz saxophonist from Israel. He moved to the United States in 1991. He has worked with Tom Abbs and the Balkan Beat Box.-Career:...
  
  
• Patrick Brennan
• Paul Dunmall
  Paul Dunmall
  Paul Dunmall is a British jazz saxophonist who plays tenor and soprano saxophone as well as the baritone and the more exotic Saxello and the Northumbrian pipes.He has a long discography on the Duns Limited Edition label....
  
  
• Paul Lytton
  Paul Lytton
  Paul Lytton is an English free jazz percussionist.Lytton began on drums at age 16. He played jazz in London in the late 1960s while taking lessons on the tabla from P.R. Desai. In 1969 he began experimenting with free improvisational music, working in a duo with saxophonist Evan Parker. After...
  
  
• Paul Murphy
  Paul Murphy (musician)
  Paul Murphy is an American jazz drummer.Paul Murphy grew up in Washington, D.C.. At the age of seven he started studying drums with Gene Krupa and then with Louis Bellson...
  
  
• Paul Rogers
• Paul Smoker
  Paul Smoker
  Paul Alva Smoker is an American jazz trumpeter.Smoker grew up in Davenport, Iowa, and moved to Chicago to play professionally. He worked there in the 1960s, playing with Bobby Christian among others...
  
  
• Perry Robinson
  Perry Robinson
  Perry Morris Robinson is an American jazz clarinetist and composer. He is the son of the noted composer Earl Robinson. -Biography:...
  
  
• Pete Vinson
• Peter Brotzmann
  Peter Brötzmann
  Peter Brötzmann is a German artist and free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough, lyrical timbre is easily recognized on his many recordings.-Early life:...
  
  
• Peter Dominquez
• Peter Kowald
  Peter Kowald
  Peter Kowald was a German free jazz musician.A member of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and a touring double-bass player, Kowald collaborated with a large number of European free jazz and American free-jazz players during his career, including Peter Brötzmann, Irène Schweizer, Karl Berger, Fred...
  
  
• Peter Valsamis
• Pheeroan akLaff
  Pheeroan akLaff
  Pheeroan akLaff is an American jazz drummer. Pheeroan akLaff began playing in his hometown of Detroit, and Ann Arbor, Michigan with Travis Biggs, Ars Nova, The Ebony Set, The Last Days, and Rod Lumpkin, recorded with Major Lansky. Moved to New Haven, Connecticut and formed DejaVu with Dwight...
  
  
• Phil Haynes
• Phil Scarff
• Philipp Wachsmann
• Phillip Johnston
  Phillip Johnston
  Phillip Johnston is an American avant-garde jazz composer and saxophonist.Johnston first gained notice working on the underground music scene of New York City in the 1980s. Among those he collaborated with are John Zorn, Eugene Chadbourne, Elliott Sharp, Wayne Horvitz, Butch Morris, and The DB's...
  
  
• Pierre Dorge
• Prince Lasha
  Prince Lasha
  William B. Lawsha, better known as Prince Lasha , was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and clarinetist....
  
  
• Pucci Jhones
• Ralph Peterson, Jr.
  Ralph Peterson, Jr.
  Ralph Peterson, Jr. is an American jazz drummer and bandleader.Four of Peterson's uncles and his grandfather were all drummers, and Peterson himself began on percussion at age three. He was raised in Atlantic City, where he played trumpet in high school and worked locally in funk groups...
  
  
• Ras Moshe
• Rashid Bakr
  Rashid Bakr
  El Rashid El Tahir Bakr was the prime minister of Sudan from 11 August 1976 until 10 September 1977. He was a member of the Sudan Socialist Union.- References :...
  
  
• Ravish Momin
• Ray Anderson
  Ray Anderson (musician)
  Ray Anderson is an independent jazz trombone and trumpet player. Anderson is a boisterous trombonist who is masterful at multiphonics. Trained by the Chicago Symphony trombonists, he is regarded as pushing the limits of the instrument. He is a contemporary and colleague of trombonist/composer...
  
  
• Reggie Nicholson
• Rich Syracuse
• Richard A. McGhee III
• Richie Barshay
• Rick Iannacone
• Rick McLaughlin
• Rob Brown
  Rob Brown
  Rob Brown may refer to:* Rob Brown , member of the UK electronic band, Autechre* Rob Brown , National Hockey League player* Rob Brown , Finding Forrester* Rob Brown , reporter and anchor for CTV News-See also:...
  
  
• Rob Thomas
• Robert Rusch
• Ron Godale
• Ron Horton
• Ron Lawrence
• Ron Miles
  Ron Miles
  Ron Miles is an American trumpeter, cornetist and composer.-Career:Miles moved to Denver, Colorado at the age of 11 and attended Denver East High School. Ron went on to study music at the University of Denver and the Manhattan School of Music . He is among Denver's most prominent jazz musicians...
  
  
• Ronnie Burrage
  Ronnie Burrage
  Ronnie Burrage is an American jazz drummer. His style draws elements from hard bop, bebop, funk, and soul....
  
  
• Rory Stuart
  Rory Stuart
  Rory Stuart is an American jazz guitarist and composer. Although he has performed as a sideman with many renowned jazz musicians, he is best known for his work as leader of critically acclaimed groups and for his role as an educator who has taught many of the rising young stars of the jazz...
  
  
• Rosella Washington
• Rosie Hertlein
• Roswell Rudd
  Roswell Rudd
  Roswell Rudd is a Grammy Award-nominated American jazz trombonist and composer....
  
  
• Roy Campbell, Jr.
  Roy Campbell, Jr.
  Roy Campbell, Jr. is versatile trumpeter frequently linked to free jazz, though he has also performed rhythm and blues, bebop and funk at times during his career. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1952, Campbell was raised in New York. At age fifteen Campbell began learning to play trumpet and...
  
  
• Russ Nolan
• Rusty Jones
  Rusty Jones
  Rusty Jones Inc. was a company which provided aftermarket rustproofing for vehicles under their "Rusty Jones" trademark. Cars treated with the rustproofing displayed a sticker in the window with the name "Rusty Jones" and a picture of the cartoon character from the company's TV commercials...
  
  
• Ryan Sawyer
• Sabir Mateen
  Sabir Mateen
  Sabir Mateen is a musician and composer from Philadelphia who plays primarily in the avant-garde jazz idiom. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute....
  
  
• Salim Washington
• Sam Bardfeld
• Samarai Celestial
• Scott Neumann
• Scott Rosenberg
  Scott Rosenberg
  Scott Rosenberg is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer.- Biography :Born in Needham, Massachusetts in 1963, Rosenberg received a Bachelor's Degree from Boston University. He earned his MFA from UCLA...
  
  
• Seth Meicht
• Shawn McGloin
• Shingo Okudaira
• Sipho Robert Bellinger
• Sonny Simmons
  Sonny Simmons
  Huey "Sonny" Simmons is an American jazz musician.He grew up in Oakland, California, where he began playing the english horn. At age 16 he took up the alto saxophone, which became his primary instrument...
  
  
• Soo-Jung Kae
• Sophie Duner
• Stephen Gauci
• Steve Lehman
• Steve Neil
• Steve Novosel
• Steve Salerno
• Steve Swell
  Steve Swell
  Steve Swell is an American free jazz trombonist and composer.Swell studied at Jersey City State College before moving to New York City in 1975 where he began his musical life, playing in top 40 bands, salsa bands, big bands and performed on Broadway in Bob Fosse's "Dancin""...
  
  
• Steve Wallace
• T.J. Graham
• Takaaki Masuko
• Taylor Ho Bynum
• Ted Daniels
• Thomas Borgmann
  Thomas Borgmann
  Thomas Borgmann is a German musician and composer of Jazz, free Jazz and free improvisation.-Biography:...
  
  
• Thomas Ulrich
  Thomas Ulrich
  Thomas Ulrich is a German boxer.- Amateur career :Ulrich was the German Light Heavyweight Champion 1994...
  
  
• Tim Armacost
• Tim Daisy
• Tim Flood
  Tim Flood
  Thomas Timothy Flood , is a former professional baseball player who played second base for the St...
  
  
• Tim Mayer
  Tim Mayer
  Tim Mayer is the Chief Operating Officer of International Motor Sports Association and the American Le Mans Series , a Vice President of the ACCUS and the United States' alternate delegate to the FIA.-Early life:The son of American motor racing identity Teddy Mayer and Sarah Mayer , Mayer was...
  
  
• Todd Margasak
• Todd Nicholson
  Todd Nicholson
  Todd Nicholson is a member of the 2010 Paralympic Sledge Ice Hockey team. This is the fourth Paralympic games that Nicholson has participated in...
  
  
• Tom Abbs
  Tom Abbs
  Tom Abbs is an American multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker. He works primarily in the fields of jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation, and plays double bass, tuba, cello, violin, didgeridoo, and wooden flute, often playing several of these instruments simultaneously.Originally from Washington...
  
  
• Tom DeSteno
• Tom Varner
  Tom Varner
  Tom Varner is an American jazz horn player and composer.Varner studied piano in his youth with Capitola Dickerson of Summit, New Jersey. He holds a B.M...
  
  
• Tomas Ulrich
• Tony Malaby
  Tony Malaby
  Tony Malaby is a post-bop jazz tenor saxophonist. Malaby moved to New York City in 1995 and has played with several notable jazz groups, including Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band, Mark Helias’s Open Loose, Fred Hersch’s Trio + 2 and Walt Whitman...
  
  
• Trio X
• Tristan Honsinger
  Tristan Honsinger
  Tristan Honsinger is a cello player active in free jazz and free improvisation. He is perhaps best known for his long-running collaboration with free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and guitarist Derek Bailey....
  
  
• Tyrone Brown
  Tyrone Brown
  Tyrone Brown is an African-American Texan who was sentenced to a life term in a Texas maximum security prison for a robbery which netted two Chinese yen in 1990 and smoking marijuana while on probation. He was granted a conditional pardon by Texas Governor Rick Perry...
  
  
• Tyrone Hill
  Tyrone Hill
  Tyrone Hill is a retired American basketball player and, since 2008–09, assistant coach for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. Hill spent four years playing collegiately at Xavier University, in his last season averaging 20.2 points and 12.6 rebounds per game, while shooting 58.1% from the field...
  
  
• Ursel Schlicht
• Valery Ponomarev
  Valery Ponomarev
  Valery Ponomarev, Russian: Вале́рий Миха́йлович Пономарёв, Valery Mikhaylovich Ponomaryov, is a Russian born jazz trumpeter. He has lived in the United States since 1973.-Career:...
  
  
• Vijay Anderson
• Vincent Chancey
  Vincent Chancey
  Vincent Chancey is an American jazz hornist.Chancey, a French horn player, attended the Southern Illinois University School of Music and then studied under Julius Watkins in New York City...
  
  
• Vinny Golia
  Vinny Golia
  Vinny Golia is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in woodwind instruments. He performs in the genres of contemporary music, jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation....
  
  
• Wade Barnes
• Warren Senders
• Warren Smith
  Warren Smith (jazz musician)
  Warren Smith is an American jazz percussionist.Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois, into a musical family; his father played saxophone and clarinet with Noble Sissle and Jimmy Noone, and his mother was a harpist and pianist. He studied clarinet under his father from age four...
  
  
• Wilber Morris
  Wilber Morris
  Wilber Morris was an American jazz double bass player and bandleader. He was the brother of the cornetist, composer, and conductor Butch Morris....
  
  
• Wilbur Morris
• Will Connell
• William Gagliardi
• Winnien Dahlgren
• Yuko Fujiyama
• Zuzaan Kali Fasteau