Stan Kenton

Stan Kenton

male, deceased (1979)
Cool jazz musician, Progressivejazzpianist, Progressive big band bandleader, Big band bandleader, music arranger, Swing bandleader…American jazz bandleader, jazz, Jazz bandleader, jazz musician
Stanley Newcomb Kenton (pianist) led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was...
Sun Ra

Sun Ra

male, deceased (1993)
Progressive big band pianist, Experimental big band pianist, poet, Experimental big band bandleader, swing music, Free improvisation pianist…Progressivejazzpianist, Free jazz pianist, Avant-garde pianist, Early Creative pianist, Hard-bop pianist
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...
Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett

male, 64 years old
Progressivejazzpianist, American jazz organist, Contemporary jazz pianist, Avant-garde pianist, Hard-bop pianist, Mainstream jazz pianist…Jazz composer, pianist, Classical pianist, jazz, Jazz organist
Keith Jarrett (born May 8 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist and composer. He is ethnically Hungarian and Irish. His career...
Carla Bley

Carla Bley

female, 71 years old
Progressive jazz composer, Women in jazz, American jazz bandleader, Post-bop pianist, American jazz organist, Progressivejazzpianist…free jazz, Jazz Composers Guild, Jazz Composers' Orchestra, jazz musician, pianist
Carla Bley, née Borg is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, s...
McCoy Tyner

McCoy Tyner

male, 71 years old
Modal jazz pianist, STACCATO, Pennsylvania musician, Mainstream jazz pianist, Post-bop pianist, Hard-bop pianist…Modern Creative pianist, Early Creative pianist, Afro-Cuban jazz pianist, Progressivejazzpianist, American jazz bandleader
Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for his work with the John Coltrane...
Jaki Byard

Jaki Byard

male, deceased (1999)
New England Conservatory of Music faculty, Progressivejazzpianist, Progressive big band musician, Third Stream pianist, Early Creative pianist, Bebop pianist…Post-bop pianist, Mainstream jazz pianist, stride pianist, free jazz, jazz piano
Jaki (John) Byard was a jazz piano player and composer who also played trumpet and saxophones, among several other instruments. He was noteworthy...
Brad Mehldau

Brad Mehldau

male, 39 years old
Post-bop pianist, Contemporary jazz pianist, Progressivejazzpianist, American, jazz, jazz pianist…pianist, jazz musician
Brad Mehldau (born August 23, 1970) is an American jazz pianist.
Bob Brookmeyer

Bob Brookmeyer

male, 80 years old
Post-bop trombonist, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, Mainstream jazz pianist, West Coast jazz pianist, Cool jazz pianist, Post-bop pianist…West Coast jazz trombonist, Cool jazz trombonist, Progressivejazzpianist, Mainstream jazz trombonist, Progressive jazz trombonist
Robert Brookmeyer (born December 19, 1929) is an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, and arranger. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Brookmeyer...
Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron

male, deceased (2002)
Modal jazz pianist, Progressivejazzpianist, Avant-garde pianist, Hard-bop pianist, Post-bop pianist, rhythm and blues…Jazz composer, jazz pianist, jazz, pianist, jazz standard
Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer. Born in New York City, his jazz work was chiefly in the hard bop,...
Abdullah Ibrahim

Abdullah Ibrahim

male, 75 years old
A Morning in Paris, Duke Ellington presents The Dollar Brand Trio, Progressivejazzpianist, Modern Creative pianist, Post-bop pianist, Folk musician…The Jazz Epistles, jazz musician, pianist, jazz pianist, jazz
Abdullah Ibrahim (born 9 October 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa), formerly known as Adolph Johannes Brand, and as Dollar Brand, is a South African...