Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker

male, deceased (1955)
musician, Jazz alto saxophonist, birdland, jazz, Bebopsaxophonist, saxophonist…Bebop musician
Charles "Bird" Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 - March 12, 1955) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Early in his career Parker was dubbed...
John Coltrane

John Coltrane

male, deceased (1967)
Jazz saxophonist, musician, American jazz bandleader, Hard-bop saxophonist, American jazz saxophonist, Avant-garde saxophonist…American jazz tenor saxophonist, Bebopsaxophonist, Free jazz saxophonist, saxophonist, tenor saxophonist
John William Coltrane, nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Although recordings of his work from as early as 1946 exist,...
Sonny Stitt

Sonny Stitt

male, deceased (1982)
Bebop musician, hard bop, Hard-bop saxophonist, Bebopsaxophonist, Critic, saxophonist…Jazz saxophonist, bebop
Edward "Sonny" Stitt (February 2 1924 - July 22 1982) was an American jazz saxophonist. He was a quintessential saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop...
Illinois Jacquet

Illinois Jacquet

male, deceased (2004)
Count Basie Orchestra member, Swing saxophonist, Bebopsaxophonist, American jazz tenor saxophonist, death by myocardial infarction, Flying Home…Jump blues saxophonist, Jazz tenor saxophonist, saxophonist
Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet (October 31, 1922-July 22, 2004) was a jazz tenor saxophonist most famous for his solo on "Flying Home". He is...
Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon

male, deceased (1990)
Swing saxophonist, Bebopsaxophonist, Hard-bop saxophonist, jazz, bebop, Jazz composer…Bebop musician, Jazz tenor saxophonist, tenor saxophonist
Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, and an Academy Award-nominated actor. He is considered one of the first bebop tenor players....
Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins

male, 79 years old
Bebopsaxophonist, Hard-bop saxophonist, musician, jazz, piano, American…Jazz tenor saxophonist, Bebop musician, saxophonist, Jazz saxophonist
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7 1930 in New York City) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Sonny Rollins has had a long,...
Phil Woods

Phil Woods

male, 78 years old
Bandleader, hard bop, Stephane Grappelli, Louis Bellson, Hard-bop saxophonist, American jazz alto saxophonist…Bebopsaxophonist, Post-bop saxophonist, Bebop clarinetist, Progressive jazz saxophonist, Bebop musician
Philip Wells Woods (born November 2 1931) is an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer. He also performed in...
Art Pepper

Art Pepper

male, deceased (1982)
Hard-bop saxophonist, Post-bop saxophonist, Cool jazz saxophonist, Bebopsaxophonist, West Coast jazz saxophonist, Mainstream jazz saxophonist…American jazz alto saxophonist, Jazz alto saxophonist, Alto Saxophonist, saxophonist
Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr. (September 1 1925-June 15, 1982) was an American cool jazz alto saxophonist. He began his musical career in the 1940s...
Jackie McLean

Jackie McLean

male, deceased (2006)
Early Creative saxophonist, Progressive jazz saxophonist, Modal jazz saxophonist, Post-bop saxophonist, Bebopsaxophonist, Hard-bop saxophonist…Mainstream jazz saxophonist, Jazz alto saxophonist, saxophonist
John Lenwood (Jackie) McLean (May 17 1931 - March 31 2006; some sources give 1932 as his year of birth) was an American jazz alto saxophonist,...
Benny Golson

Benny Golson

male, 80 years old
hard bop, Bebopsaxophonist, Hard-bop saxophonist, bebop, Pennsylvania musician, jazz standard…Jazz tenor saxophonist, saxophonist
Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. While in high school in...