- male, deceased (2001)
- Les Brown, Sr. and the Band of Renown are a big band that began in the big band era of the late 1930s and now performs under the direction of his...
- female, deceased (2007)
- Nellie Lutcher (October 15, 1912 - June 8, 2007) was an African-American R&B and jazz singer and pianist, who achieved prominence in the late 1940s...
- male, deceased (1995)
- eden ahbez (April 15, 1908 - March 4, 1995), born Alexander Aberle in Brooklyn, New York and adopted by a Kansas family and raised under the name...
- male, 92 years old
- Lee Young (born 7 March, 1917) is an American jazz drummer and singer. Young was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His older brother was famed...
- male, 78 years old
- John Johnson Jr., known since childhood as Plas Johnson, is an American tenor saxophonist, probably most familiar as the lead on Henry Mancini’s "T...
- male
- John Collins (born 1913) accompanied many Swing Era names from 1935-1950, including Art Tatum, Roy Eldridge, Billie Holiday, and Lester Young. His...
- male, deceased (1965)
- Nat King Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles in 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama. When Cole was four years old, his father, Edward, a Baptist minister,...
- female, deceased (2005)
- Consuelo Velázquez, was a Mexican songwriter. According to her obituary she was 88 years old when she died. Most music resources, however, list h...
- male, deceased (1955)
- Charles Edward "Cow Cow" Davenport was an American boogie woogie piano player. He also played the organ and sang. He was born in Anniston, Alabama....
- male
- John Cocuzzi (born 1964) is an American jazz, blues, and swing musician who specializes the vibraphone and piano, as well as drums. His primary...
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