Artists

• Richard Accart
• Françoise Achard
• Pepper Adams
  Pepper Adams
  Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III was a jazz baritone saxophonist and composer. He composed 43 pieces, was the leader on twenty albums, and participated in 600 sessions as a sideman.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gene Adler
• Irene Aebi
• Ricou Albin
• Michel Alibo
• Kamal Alim
• 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:...
  
  
• Jean-Claude André
• Jacky Arconte
• Horacee Arnold
• Patrick Artéro
• Georges Arvanitas
  Georges Arvanitas
  Georges Arvanitas was a jazz pianist and organist.- Life and career :He began life as a child of Greek immigrants from Constantinople. At the age of four he began studying piano and initially trained as a classical. However he switched to jazz some time in his teens and would be known for jazz in...
  
  
• Nicole Aubiat
• Jean-Jacques Avenel
• Billy Bang
  Billy Bang
  Billy Bang was an American free jazz violinist and composer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Francis Baron des grottes
• Eric Barret
• Philip Barry
  Philip Barry
  Philip James Quinn Barry was an American playwright born in Rochester, New York.-Early life:Philip Barry was born on June 18, 1896 in Rochester, New York to James Corbett Barry and Mary Agnes Quinn Barry. James would die from appendicitis a year after Philip's birth, and his father's marble and...
  
  
• Claude Barthélémy
  Claude Barthélemy
  Claude Barthélemy is a Haitian former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a striker.-Professional:Barthélemy spent time in the North American Soccer League with the Detroit Cougars.-International:...
  
  
• Abdou Beckouri
• Fanfan Belles cuisses
• Roquet Belles Oreilles
• Mourad Benhammou
• Abdelhaï Bennani
• Yves Berg
• Dominique Berose
• Jacques Berrocal
• Michel Bertier
  Michel Bertier
  Michel Bertier was the surgeon-major of Quebec and was surgeon to the Hôtel-Dieu there as well.Bertier had frequent professional contact with Michel Sarrazin who was surgeon-major of the colonial regular troops. They both attended at the death of Bishop Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de...
  
  
• Airelle Besson
• John Betsch
  John Betsch
  John Betsch is an American jazz drummer.Betsch began on percussion at age nine, and attended Fisk University, Berklee College of Music and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. After playing in organ trios, he released an album as a leader, Earth Blossom, in 1975...
  
  
• Zéno Bianu
• Cyrille Bibounet
• Charly Bidineux
• François Billard
• Marvin Blackman
• Jean-Philippe Blin
• Jacques Bolognesi
• Bastien Boni
• Raymond Boni
• Maurice Bouhana
• Francky Bourlier
• Mario Branlo
• 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...
  
  
• Willem Breuker
  Willem Breuker
  Willem Breuker was a Dutch jazz bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and bass clarinetist....
  
  
• Cameron Brown
• George Brown
• Marion Brown
  Marion Brown
  Marion Brown was a jazz alto saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. He is most well known as a member of the 1960s avant-garde jazz scene in New York City, playing alongside musicians such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, and John Tchicai...
  
  
• Rob Brown
• Kendall Buchanan
• Michel Bulteau
  Michel Bulteau
  Michel Bulteau is a French poet, essayist, occasional musician and experimental filmmaker, born on 8 October 1949 in Arcueil.-Biography:When he was twenty-two, he contributed with seventeen other young poets, including Matthieu Messagier, Jean-Jacques Faussot, Jacques Ferry, Patrick Geoffrois and...
  
  
• Roy Burrowes
• Jaki Byard
  Jaki Byard
  Jaki Byard was an American jazz pianist and composer who also played trumpet and saxophone, among several other instruments. He was noteworthy for his eclectic style, incorporating everything from ragtime and stride to free jazz...
  
  
• Jerry Byrd
  Jerry Byrd
  Gerald Lester "Jerry" Byrd was an American musician who played Lap steel guitar in country and Hawaiian music.-Career:...
  
  
• Roy Campbell
  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...
  
  
• Patrice Caratini
• Didier Carlier
• 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...
  
  
• Kent Carter
  Kent Carter
  Kent Carter is an American jazz bassist. He is the grandson of American artist, Rockwell Kent. He worked in Steve Lacy's group, played on the two Jazz Composer's Orchestra albums and also released albums for Emanem Records.-As leader:* Beauvais Cathedral * The Juillaguet Collection with Albrecht...
  
  
• Philippe Catan
• Jean-François Catoire
• Olivier Cauquil
• Jean-Paul Celea
• Jean-Claude Cenci
• Marc Chambon
• Alain "Paco" Charlery
• Remi Charmasson
• Jean-Louis Chautemps
• Pierre Chereze
• Brigitte Choupette
• Pierre Christophe
• Ernest Guiraud Cissé
• Curtis Clark
  Curtis Clark
  - Life and career :Clark was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1950, but moved to Los Angeles where he spent his student years and started composing and playing the piano. After Clark graduated in music theory and composition from the California Institute of Arts in Valencia, he set out for New York City...
  
  
• Gerald Cleaver
  Gerald Cleaver (musician)
  Gerald Cleaver is an African-American jazz drummer from Detroit, Michigan. He joined the jazz faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995...
  
  
• Jerome Cooper
  Jerome Cooper
  Jerome Cooper is an American free jazz musician. Known as a multi-dimensional drummer, Cooper plays balafon, chirimia and electronic tonal activator in addition to trap drums....
  
  
• Levender Cope
• Ray Copeland
  Ray Copeland
  Ray Copeland was a jazz trumpet player and teacher. Throughout his career he participated on many swing and hard bop dates, appearing on the well known Monk's Music by Thelonious Monk in 1956...
  
  
• Dominique Coster
• Pierre Courbois
  Pierre Courbois
  Sir Pierre Courbois is a Dutch jazz-drummer, bandleader and composer.After studying percussion at the Hogeschool der Kunsten in Arnhem, Courbois left for Paris, the center of Jazz in Europe in the early 1960s...
  
  
• Emmanuel Cremer
• Clyde Crymer
• Bob Cunningham
• Frank Curier
• Ted Curson
  Ted Curson
  Theodore "Ted" Curson is a jazz trumpeter. He is perhaps best-known for recording and performing with Charles Mingus....
  
  
• Leo Cuypers
• 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...
  
  
• Chris Dailey Mc Craven
• Dominique Dalmasso
• Irene Datcher
• Art Davis
  Art Davis
  Art Davis was a double-bassist, known for his work with various seminal jazz musicians including Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach.-Biography:...
  
  
• Richard Davis
• Charles Davis
  Charles Davis (saxophonist)
  Charles Davis is an American jazz baritone saxophonist who performed extensively with Archie Shepp and Sun Ra, among others.-Biography:...
  
  
• Santi De Briano
• Irakly de Davrichewy
• Chris de Foy
• Patrick De Groote
  Patrick De Groote
  Patrick De Groote is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to the N-VA. He was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2010.-Notes:...
  
  
• Laurent de Wilde
  Laurent de Wilde
  Laurent de Wilde is a French jazz pianist, composer and writer.Raised in France from 1964, he joined the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1981, philosophy section. In 1983, during a music scholarship, he lived in New York at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University...
  
  
• Raphaël Dever
• Bruno Di Goia
• Frankie Di Lagio
• Akua Dixon
• Sophia Domancich
• Laure Donnat
• Dany Doriz
• Hamid Drake
  Hamid Drake
  Hamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He lives in Chicago, IL but spends much of his time traveling around the world for concerts and studio dates....
  
  
• Rémy Dédé Dréano
• Bob Driessen
• Jean-Pierre Drouet
• Daniel Dublet
• Benjamin Duboc
• Philippe Duchemin
• Johnny Dyani
  Johnny Dyani
  Johnny Mbizo Dyani was a South African jazz double bassist and pianist, who played with such musicians as Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, David Murray and Leo Smith....
  
  
• Carl Ector
• Michel Edelin
• Paco El Lobo
• Steve Ellington
• Henri-Jean Enu
• Goran Eriksson
• Olav Estienne
• Charles Eubanks
• Cheikh Tidiane Fall
• Jacques Fassola
• Roger Ferlet
• Michel Fernandez
• Glenn Ferris
  Glenn Ferris
  Glenn Ferris is a jazz trombonist who has also worked in other fields. Outside of jazz he has played for Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Duran Duran, and others....
  
  
• Marcus Fiorillo
• 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,...
  
  
• Ricky Ford
  Ricky Ford
  Ricky Ford is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Ford was born in Boston and studied at the New England Conservatory. In 1974 he recorded with Gunther Schuller and then played in the Duke Ellington Orchestra under Mercer Ellington from 1974 to 1976...
  
  
• Jean-Marc Foussat
• Claudine François
• Laurent Geniez
• Daniel Geoffroy
• Gérard Gélas
• Patrick Géoffrois
• Denis Gheerbrandt
• Lafayette Gilchrist
• John Gilmore
  John Gilmore (musician)
  John Gilmore was an American jazz tenor saxophone player best-known for his long tenure as a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra...
  
  
• Jef Gilson
• Dexter Gordon
  Dexter Gordon
  Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone...
  
  
• Arjen Gorter
• Simon Goubert
• Jacques Gouré
• Pierre-Olivier Govin
• Enrico Granafei
• Rael Wesley Grant
• Lou Grassi
• Candice Greene
• Charles Greenlee
  Charles Greenlee (musician)
  Charles "Majeed" or "Majid" Greenlee was an American jazz trombonist.Greenlee played mellophone, drums, and baritone horn in his youth, and got his early experience playing locally in Detroit. He played with Lucky Millinder and Benny Carter in the early 1940s, then with Dizzy Gillespie...
  
  
• Jack Gregg
• Roger Gremillot
• Sonny Grey
• Dick Griffin
  Dick Griffin
  Dick Griffin is an American trombonist known for his work in free jazz, especially with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the Sun Ra Arkestra, and Charles Mingus...
  
  
• Alexandra Grimal
• Dieter Guevissier
• Jean Guérin
• Roger Guérin
  Roger Guérin
  Roger Guérin was a French jazz trumpeter and singer.Initially a violinist, Guérin studied trumpet and cornet at the Paris Conservatory and won a first prize there as a teenager....
  
  
• Beb Guérin
• Sylvain Guérineau
• François Guildon
• Ernest Guiraud Cissé
• 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...
  
  
• Doug Hammond
  Doug Hammond
  Doug Hammond is a free funk/avant-garde jazz drummer, professor, composer, poet and producer from Tampa, Florida, U.S.A...
  
  
• Billy Harper
  Billy Harper
  Billy Harper is a Jazz saxophonist, "one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists" with a distinctively stern, hard-as-nails sound on his instrument.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ray Harris
  Ray Harris
  Ray Harris was an American rockabilly musician and songwriter. He formed a band with Wayne Powers, and wrote the songs "Come On, Little Mama" and "Greenback Dollar, Watch and Chain". He eventually recorded these at Sun Records with Sam Phillips. He has also produced artists at Hi Records...
  
  
• Yves Hasselmann
• Didier Hauck
• Guy Hayat
• Roy Haynes
  Roy Haynes
  Roy Owen Haynes is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Haynes is among the most recorded drummers in jazz, and in a career lasting more than 60 years has played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing and bebop to jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz...
  
  
• Eddie Henderson
  Eddie Henderson
  Eddie Henderson is a retired U.S. soccer player and current Nevada Director of Youth Coaching. Henderson spent two seasons in the Western Soccer League, one in the American Professional Soccer League, one season in Major Soccer League and seven in the National Professional Soccer League. He also...
  
  
• Fred Hersch
  Fred Hersch
  Fred Hersch is a contemporary American jazz pianist who has become a consistent and highly demanded performer on the international jazz scene....
  
  
• John Hicks
  John Hicks
  Sir John Richard Hicks was a British economist and one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS/LM model , which...
  
  
• Patience Higgins
• Benoit Holliger
• Everett Hollins
• Sylvia Howard
• Bernard Hunnekink
• David Jackson
  David Jackson (rock musician)
  David Nicholas George Jackson , nicknamed Jaxon, is a British progressive rock saxophonist, flautist, and composer. He is best known for his work with the band Van der Graaf Generator and his work in Music and Disability...
  
  
• Ambrose Jackson
• Hakim Jami
• Clifford Jarvis
  Clifford Jarvis
  Clifford Jarvis was an American hard bop and free jazz drummer.After studying at Berklee in the 1950s he established himself in jazz between 1959 and 1966 by recording with Chet Baker, Randy Weston, Yusef Lateef, Freddie Hubbard, Barry Harris, Jackie McLean, and Elmo Hope, and playing with Grant...
  
  
• Alain Jean-Marie
• Jean-François Jenny Clark
• Terry Jenoure
• Kevin Jones
• Philly Joe Jones
  Philly Joe Jones
  Joseph Rudolph Jones was a Philadelphia-born United States jazz drummer, known as the drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet.Philly Joe Jones was often confused with another influential jazz drummer, Jo Jones...
  
  
• Bert Jouis
• Ray Kaczynski
• Siegfried Kessler
• Lansine Kouyaté
• 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...
  
  
• Bob Kunningham
• Thierry dit Kühl le clown
• Joachim Kühn
  Joachim Kühn
  -Biography:Kühn was a musical prodigy and made his debut as a concert pianist, having studied classical piano and composition with Arthur Schmidt-Elsey. Influenced by his elder brother, clarinetist Rolf Kühn, he simultaneously got interested in jazz. In 1961 he became a professional jazz musician....
  
  
• Papé l' écrivain
• Christophe Laborde
• Steve Lacy
  Steve Lacy
  Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....
  
  
• Oliver Lake
  Oliver Lake
  Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet. He is known mainly on alto saxophone but also performs on soprano saxophone and flute....
  
  
• Didier Lasserre
• Jobic le Masson
• Fernand le salé darlès
• Fred le vicomte électrique
• Patricia Lebeugle
• Ronald Lecourt
• Benjamin Legrand
• Dominique Lentin
• Jean-Pierre Lentin
• Didier Levallet
  Didier Levallet
  Didier Levallet is a French jazz double bassist, composer, arranger and leader.A self-taught bassist, Levallet made his professional debut in Paris in 1969, working with such artists as Ted Curson, Johnny Griffin, Kenny Clarke, Mal Waldron, Hank Mobley, Archie Shepp, Tony Oxley, Steve Lacy, Harry...
  
  
• Victor Lewis
  Victor Lewis
  Victor Lewis is an American jazz drummer, a major force in the genre since the 1980s.-As leader:*1992: Family Portrait - with John Stubblefield, Edward Simon, Cecil McBee, Don Alias, Jumma Santos...
  
  
• Christian Lété
• 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...
  
  
• Kirk Lightsey
  Kirk Lightsey
  Kirkland "Kirk" Lightsey is an American jazz pianist.Lightsey had piano instruction from age five and studied piano and clarinet through high school. After service in the Army, Lightsey worked in Detroit and California in the 1960s as an accompanist to singers...
  
  
• Abbey Lincoln
  Abbey Lincoln
  Anna Marie Wooldridge , better known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was a jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. Lincoln was unusual in that she wrote and performed her own compositions, expanding the expectations of jazz audiences.-Biography:Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was one of many...
  
  
• Wilbur Little
  Wilbur Little
  Wilbur Little was an African American jazz bassist known for Hard bop and Post-bop. He originally played piano, but switched to bass after serving in the military. In 1949 he moved to Washington, DC where he worked with "Sir" Charles Thompson among others. After that he was in J. J...
  
  
• Sébastien Llado
• Guillaume Loizillon
• 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...
  
  
• Barbara Lowengreen
• Eric Löhrer
• Curtis Lundy
  Curtis Lundy
  Curtis Lundy is an American double bass player, composer, producer, choir director and arranger. Lundy is best-known for his work as part of jazz vocalist Betty Carter's band, through whose ranks several eventually renowned musicians have passed....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Véronique Magdelenat
• Didier Malherbe
  Didier Malherbe
  Didier Antonin Malherbe is a saxophonist and flautist. He was one of the founders of the Canterbury sound band Gong....
  
  
• Fred Malle
• Gérard Marais
• Stu Martin
  Stu Martin (drummer)
  Stu Martin was an American jazz drummer.Martin began playing in 1956. He was appearing with the orchestras of Quincy Jones, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Slide Hampton, Maynard Ferguson and with Herbie Hancock...
  
  
• Philippe Martineau
• Philippe Maté
• Art Matthews
• Ray Mauger
• Bénédicte Maulet
• Steve Mc Call
• Charles Mc Gee
• Hirshel Mc Ginnis
• Joe Mc Phee
• François Méchali
• Gilles Mézières
• Claude Micheli
• Mine
• Pépée Minègue
• Jouck Minor
• Roland Molinier
• Gato Montauban
• Matt Moran
  Matt Moran
  Matthew Moran,commonly known as Matt Moran, is an Australian chef also known for being a guest on various TV cooking shows.- Early childhood and education :...
  
  
• Pierre Moret
• 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....
  
  
• Lawrence 'Butch' Morris
• Benjamin Moussay
• David Murray
• Margriet Naber
• Gilles Naturel
• Guillaume Naturel
• Nolle Neels
• Harvey Neneux
• Marce of Mémé Flippée
• Itaru Oki
• Leïla Olivesi
• Ferhat Öz
• Evrim Özsuca
• Antoine Paganotti
• Guy Paquin
• Jeff Parker
  Jeff Parker (musician)
  Jeff Parker is an American jazz and rock guitarist based in Chicago. Parker is best known as an experimental musician, working with avant-garde electronic, rock, and improvisational groups....
  
  
• William Parker
  William Parker (musician)
  William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist, poet and composer.-Biography:Parker was not formally trained as a classical player, though he did study with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis, and Wilbur Ware and learned the tradition. Parker is one of few jazz bassists who regularly plays arco...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Stéphane Payen
• Sylvie Peristeris
• Walter Perkins
• Félix Perron
• Pierrick Pédron
• Barre Phillips
  Barre Phillips
  Barre Phillips is a jazz and free improvisation bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he migrated to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972 he has been based in southern France....
  
  
• Alain Pinsolle
• Michel Portal
  Michel Portal
  Michel Portal is a composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.Portal studied clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris...
  
  
• Steve Potts
  Steve Potts (jazz musician)
  Steve Potts is an American jazz saxophonist, younger cousin of tenor saxophonist Buddy Tate.Potts studied architecture in Los Angeles and took lessons by Charles Lloyd...
  
  
• Jean-Claude Pourtier
• Eddie Preston
  Eddie Preston
  Eddie Preston was an American jazz trumpeter.He was born in Dallas, Texas and died in Palm Coast, Florida.Preston began playing in big bands after World War II, and did stints with Lionel Hampton , Ray Charles , Louis Jordan , Duke Ellington , and Count Basie...
  
  
• John Purcell
  John Purcell
  John Purcell VC was an Irish soldier in the British Army who received 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....
  
  
• Joe Quitzke
• Boy Raaymakers
• Joseph Racaille
• 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...
  
  
• Sha Rakotofiringa
• Alain Raman
• Roger Raspail
• Richard Raux
• Antonin Rayon
• Luc Rebelles
• Freddie Redd
  Freddie Redd
  Freddie Redd is an American hard bop pianist and composer.His greatest success came in the late 1950s in the play and movie The Connection, in which he both played and acted in New York City, London, and Paris. He also played on the soundtrack album...
  
  
• Jean-Marie Redon
• Dizzy Reece
  Dizzy Reece
  Alphonso Son "Dizzy" Reece is a hard bop jazz trumpeter with a distinctive sound and compositional style.Reece was born 5 January 1931 in Kingston, Jamaica, the son of a silent film pianist. He attended the Alpha Boys School , switching from baritone to trumpet at 14...
  
  
• Wolfgang Reisinger
• Marc Richard
• Adil Riski
• Sam Rivers
  Sam Rivers
  Samuel Carthorne Rivers , is an American jazz musician and composer. He performs on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano....
  
  
• Christian Rollet
• Jean-Paul Rondepierre
• Yvon Rosillette
• Brandon Ross
• Hilton Ruiz
  Hilton Ruiz
  Hilton Ruiz was a Puerto Rican American jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player....
  
  
• Leo Sab
• Arnaud Sacase
• Mokhtar Samba
• Réda Samba
• Jacky Samson
• Maré Sanogo
• Bernard Santacruz
• Makoto Sato
  Makoto Satō
  Makoto Satō was a Japanese documentary film director. Among his best-known films were Living On the River Agano and Self and Others....
  
  
• Charles Saudrais
• Julie Saury
• Emmanuel Scarpa
• Jean-Jacques Schnell
• Bruno Schorp
• John Schroder
  John Schroder
  John Michael Schroder, Sr. , is a businessman from Covington, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 77 in St. Tammany Parish in suburban New Orleans. Schroder was first elected to the House in 2007 by a conservative constituency in both St...
  
  
• Jeff Yochk'o Seffer
• Jaribu Shahid
• Avery Sharpe
  Avery Sharpe
  Avery Sharpe is an American jazz double-bassist.Sharpe began playing piano at age eight and also studied accordion in his youth. He learned both electric and acoustic bass as a teenager, then studied with Reggie Workman at the University of Massachusetts...
  
  
• Sonny Sharrock
  Sonny Sharrock
  Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock was an American jazz guitarist. He was once married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he sometimes recorded and performed....
  
  
• Archie Shepp
  Archie Shepp
  Archie Shepp is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and...
  
  
• Sahib Shihab
  Sahib Shihab
  Sahib Shihab was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Doug Sides
• Alan Silva
  Alan Silva
  Alan Silva is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Hal Singer
  Hal Singer
  Harold Joseph "Hal" Singer is an American R&B and jazz bandleader and saxophonist.-Biography:Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Singer studied violin as a child but, as a teenager, switched to clarinet and then tenor saxophone, which became his instrument of choice...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Philippe Soirat
• Pierre-Yves Sorin
• James Spaulding
• Louis 'Mbiki' Spears
• Daiva Starinskaite
• Anna Startseva
• Charles Stephens
• Gil Sterg
• John Stewart
• Ricardo Strobert
• Marc Stutz-Boukouya
• Gilbert Sulma Pontoise
• John Surman
  John Surman
  John Douglas Surman is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music as a basis...
  
  
• Eric Surmenian
• Pierre Surtel
• Armand Talot Man
• Claude Talvat
• Art Taylor
  Art Taylor
  Arthur S. Taylor, Jr. was an American jazz drummer of the hard bop school.After playing in the bands of Howard McGhee, Coleman Hawkins, Buddy DeFranco, Bud Powell, and George Wallington from 1948 to 1957, he formed his own group, the Wailers...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Jacques Thollot
• Malachi Thompson
  Malachi Thompson
  Malachi Richard Thompson , was an American avant-garde jazz trumpet player.- Biography :...
  
  
• Tonton
• Jean My Truong
• 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,...
  
  
• Steve Turre
  Steve Turre
  Steve Turre is a trombonist, recording artist, arranger, and educator. In 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2006 he won the Down Beat Reader's Poll for best trombonist....
  
  
• François Tusques
• Paul Van Gysegem
• Willem Van Manen
• Maarten Van Norden
• Jasper Van't Hof
• André Velter
  André Velter
  André Velter , French poet, was born in Signy-l'Abbaye in the Ardennes région and was educated in Charleville and Paris. Having begun his first journeys in 1955 through Europe and the Middle East, he has traveled through Afghanistan, Tibet, China and India...
  
  
• Jaanika Ventsel
• Rob Verdurmen
• Patrick Vian
  Patrick Vian
  -Biography:Vian is the son of French jazz trumpeter and poet Boris Vian. He first gained notability as a member of the progressive rock/protopunk band Red Noise ; the band formed at the Sorbonne in 1968, and played its first show during the occupation of the university...
  
  
• Bernard Vitet
  Bernard Vitet
  Bernard Vitet, born on May 26, 1934 in Paris, is a French trumpetist and composer, co-founder of the first free jazz band in France together with François Tusques, Michel Portal Unit and Un Drame Musical Instantané with Jean-Jacques Birgé and Francis Gorgé in 1976.He belongs to the first meeting...
  
  
• Aly Wagué
• Freddie Waits
  Freddie Waits
  Freddie Douglas Waits was a hard bop and post-bop drummer.He was a member of Max Roach's M'Boom percussion orchestra....
  
  
• Mal Waldron
  Mal Waldron
  Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...
  
  
• Andrea Walter
• James Ware
• Reggie Washington
• Ben Webster
  Ben Webster
  Benjamin Francis Webster , a.k.a. "The Brute" or "Frog," was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist. Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Barney Wilen
  Barney Wilen
  Barney Wilen was a French tenor and soprano saxophonist and jazz composer.Wilen was born in Nice; his father was an American dentist turned inventor, and his mother was French. He began performing in clubs in Nice after being encouraged by Blaise Cendrars who was a friend of his mother...
  
  
• Michelle Wiley
• Joe Lee Wilson
  Joe Lee Wilson
  Joe Lee Wilson was an American gospel-influenced jazz singer, originally from Bristow, Oklahoma. His voice is best recognized from several Archie Shepp albums recorded for Impulse! Records.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jan Wolf
• Chris Woods
  Chris Woods
  Christopher 'Chris' Charles Eric Woods is a former England international football goalkeeper, who played in the Football League and Premier League for Queens Park Rangers, Norwich City, Sheffield Wednesday, Reading, Southampton and Burnley, in the Scottish Football League for Rangers, and in Major...
  
  
• Reggie Workman
  Reggie Workman
  Reginald "Reggie" Workman is an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey....
  
  
• Octave Z
• Michael Zerang