Amos Lee

Amos Lee

male, 31 years old
Pennsylvania musician, Songwriter, bassist, American, soul, jazz…BlueNoteRecords
Amos Lee is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His musical style encompasses folk, soul, and jazz. He has released...
Grant Green

Grant Green

male, deceased (1979)
Hard-bop guitarist, Soul-jazz guitarist, Jazz-funk guitarist, hard bop, jazz, American…BlueNoteRecords
Grant Green (June 6, 1935 - January 31, 1979; some sources erroneously give the birth year as 1931) was a jazz guitarist and composer. Recording...
Horace Silver

Horace Silver

male, 81 years old
jazz musician, cape verde, jazz pianist, Modal jazz pianist, tenor saxophone, Mainstream jazz pianist…BlueNoteRecords, blue note
Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....
Hank Mobley

Hank Mobley

male, deceased (1986)
Hard-bop musician, American jazz saxophonist, Jazz tenor saxophonist, American, roll call, From Georgia…BlueNoteRecords
Henry (Hank) Mobley was an American hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the...
Kenny Dorham

Kenny Dorham

male, deceased (1972)
Mainstream jazz trumpeter, Hard-bop trumpeter, Bebop trumpeter, BlueNoteRecords, jazz singer, Jazz composer…blue note, Prestige Records
McKinley Howard (Kenny) Dorham (August 30, 1924 - December 5, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas....
Sonny Clark

Sonny Clark

male, deceased (1963)
Bebop pianist, Hard-bop pianist, Post-bop pianist, West Coast jazz pianist, Mainstream jazz pianist, hard bop…BlueNoteRecords
Conrad Yeatis (Sonny) Clark (July 21, 1931 in Herminie, Pennsylvania - January 13, 1963 in New York City) was an American hard bop pianist. An...
Freddie Hubbard

Freddie Hubbard

male, 71 years old
Soul-jazz trumpeter, Jazz-funk trumpeter, Jazz fusion trumpeter, Mainstream jazz trumpeter, Hard-bop trumpeter, Post-bop trumpeter…BlueNoteRecords
Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (born April 7 1938 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American jazz trumpeter. In his youth, Hubbard associated with various...
Lonnie Smith

Lonnie Smith

male
musician, Benny Maupin, Melvin Sparks, Marion Booker, Idris Muhammed, Alligator Boogaloo…BlueNoteRecords
Dr. Lonnie Smith was born in Lackawanna, New York, (just outside of Buffalo) His affinity for R&B melded with his own personal style, and he...
Terence Blanchard

Terence Blanchard

male, 47 years old
Post-bop trumpeter, mainstream jazz, Mainstream jazz trumpeter, Terrence Blanchard, Hard-bop trumpeter, American jazz trumpeter…Columbia Records, BlueNoteRecords
Terrence Blanchard (b. March 13, 1962, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American Mainstream jazz musician and composer, though he performs in various...
Curtis Fuller

Curtis Fuller

male, 74 years old
Hard-bop trombonist, Mainstream jazz trombonist, Count Basie Orchestra member, American jazz trombonist, hard bop, Prestige Records…BlueNoteRecords, blue train
Curtis DuBois Fuller (born in Detroit, December 15, 1934) is a United States hard bop trombonist. Fuller's parents were Jamaican and died when he...