Misha Mengelberg

Misha Mengelberg

male, 74 years old
Gaudeamus International Composers Award, Freeimprovisationpianist, Avant-garde pianist, Modern Creative pianist, Post-bop pianist, Absurdist…pianist, Free improvisation, jazz pianist
Misha Mengelberg (born June 5, 1935) is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961. Mengelberg...
Sun Ra

Sun Ra

male, deceased (1993)
Progressive big band pianist, Experimental big band pianist, poet, Experimental big band bandleader, swing music, Freeimprovisationpianist…Progressive jazz pianist, Free jazz pianist, Avant-garde pianist, Early Creative pianist, Free improvisation
Sun Ra (Born Herman Poole Blount; legal name Le Sony'r Ra; born May 22, 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama, died May 30, 1993 in Birmingham, Alabama) was...
Matthew Shipp

Matthew Shipp

male, 48 years old
Freeimprovisationpianist, Free jazz pianist, Avant-garde pianist, Modern Creative pianist, Post-bop pianist, El-P…free jazz, jazz pianist, pianist
Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American free jazz pianist. Shipp has been very active in the 1990s, appearing on dozens of albums as a...

Irène Schweizer

female, 68 years old
Freeimprovisationpianist, Free jazz pianist, Avant-garde pianist, Early Creative pianist, Modern Creative pianist, Maggie Nichols…jazz pianist, pianist
Irène Schweizer is a notable Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist. She was born in Schaffhausen, in 1941. She has performed and recorded n...