43 people found
People in Category: African-American jazz composers
Kenneth Kilgore
American jazz musician
Emme Kemp
Vocalist, musician, pianist, composer, actress, bandleader
Jon Batiste
American cross-genre musician
Cee Pee Johnson
American bandleader
Michael White
American jazz clarinetist
Don Redman
American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader, and composer
Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
Eddie Barefield
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and arranger
Noble Sissle
American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright
James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
Steve Coleman
American saxophonist
Mercer Ellington
American jazz musician, composer, and arranger
Billy Strayhorn
American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger
Eubie Blake
American composer, lyricist, and pianist
Betty Carter
American jazz singer, recording artist, songwriter
Kermit Ruffins
American musician
Meade Lux Lewis
American pianist and composer
Muhal Richard Abrams
American musician
Ray Charles
American singer, pianist and songwriter
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
Erskine Hawkins
American trumpeter and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama
John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
Bill Doggett
American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
Charlie Parker
American jazz saxophonist and composer
Louis Armstrong
American blues trumpeter and singer
Ford Dabney
American conductor and songwriter
Kris Bowers
American composer and pianist
Nathaniel Clark Smith
American composer
Leroy Jenkins
American composer and violinist
Ahamefule J. Oluo
American musician
Onzy Matthews
American jazz musician
Laurdine "Pat" Patrick
American jazz musician
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
Wilbur Sweatman
American musician
Luther Henderson
American composer and pianist
David Baker
American jazz composer, trombonist, professor of music and author
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
American composer
Alfred Ellis
American saxophonist
Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer