Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton

male, 64 years old
Roosevelt University alumni, saxophonist, music educator, Clarinettist, multi-instrumentalist, Clarinetist…Avant-garde jazzmusician, Jazz saxophonist, Experimental musician, jazz musician, Jazz composer
Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945 in Chicago) is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, and pianist. He has created a large...
Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman

male, 79 years old
Free jazz musician, pulitzer prize, From Fort Worth, Texas, composer, Pulitzer Prize for Music winner, Avant-garde jazzmusician…Free funk musician, Jazz alto saxophonist, free jazz, jazz musician, Jazz violinist
Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the...
John Zorn

John Zorn

male, 56 years old
Jazz fusion musician, Avant-garde jazzmusician, arranger, American, Postmodern composer, orchestration…avant-garde, jazz, musician, Jazz saxophonist, Jazz composer
John Zorn (born September 2 1953 in Queens, USA) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and...
Ken Vandermark

Ken Vandermark

male, 45 years old
Avant-garde jazzmusician, saxophone, MacArthur Fellow, Chicago musician, Jazz saxophonist, jazz
Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964 in Warwick, Rhode Island) is an American jazz composer/arranger and saxophone and clarinet player
Charles Gayle

Charles Gayle

male, 70 years old
Avant-garde jazzmusician, musician, new testament, American, God, old…free jazz, jazz musician, Jazz saxophonist, Jazz Solo Piano
Charles Gayle (born February 28, 1939) is a free jazz saxophonist, pianist, bass clarinetist, and percussionist. He lives in New York. Some of...

William Parker

male, 57 years old
Frank Lowe, Kora, Avant-garde jazzmusician, Kora player, Other Dimensions In Music, Rob Brown…Jazz bassist, free jazz, musician
William Parker (b. Bronx, New York City, New York, January 10, 1952) is an American free jazz double bassist. As a bassist, Parker is possessed of...
Eric Dolphy

Eric Dolphy

male, deceased (1964)
Avant-garde jazzmusician, expatriate, American jazz flautist, from Los Angeles, saxophonist, American jazz alto saxophonist…Jazz composer, jazz musician, jazz, Jazz flautist, avant-garde
Eric Allan Dolphy (June 20, 1928 - June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist and bass clarinetist. Dolphy was one of several...
Cecil Taylor

Cecil Taylor

male, 80 years old
Avant-garde jazzmusician, musician, free jazz, LGBT musician, From Queen, from the United States…jazz pianist
Cecil Percival Taylor (born March 15 or March 25, 1929 in New York City) is an American pianist and poet. Along with Ornette Coleman, he is now...
Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

female, deceased (2007)
swami, American jazz harpist, ashram, Avant-garde jazzmusician, Women in jazz, Follower of Sathya Sai Baba…American jazz organist, jazz musician, jazz pianist, jazz, musician
Alice Coltrane, born Alice McLeod (August 27 1937 - January 12 2007) was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, and composer. Born in...
Jack Dejohnette

Jack Dejohnette

male, 67 years old
musician, African American, Avant-garde jazzmusician, from Chicago, Columbia, The Tony Williams Lifetime…Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival, jazz musician, jazz drummer, jazz
Jack DeJohnette (b. 1942) is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. DeJohnette was born in Chicago, Illinois. Besides the drums, he...