Kenny Clarke

Kenny Clarke

male, deceased (1985)
Kenny Clarke (born Kenneth Clarke Spearman, later aka, Liaqat Ali Salaam, on January 9, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-died January 26, 1985 in...
Rudy van Gelder

Rudy van Gelder

male, 85 years old (Hackensack, New Jersey, United States)
Rudy Van Gelder (born November 2, 1924 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a recording engineer specialising in jazz. Van Gelder is one of the legendary...
Hal Singer

Hal Singer

male, 90 years old
Hal Singer is an American R&B and jazz bandleader and saxophonist. He studied violin as a child, but as a teenager switched to clarinet and then...
Kai Winding

Kai Winding

male, deceased (1983)
Kai Chresten Winding (May 18, 1922-May 6, 1983) was a popular trombonist and jazz composer. He is well known for playing and recording with J. J....
Lashun Pace

Lashun Pace

female
Tarrian LaShun Pace (sometimes credited as LaShun Pace Rhodes or Shun Pace Rhodes) is an American gospel singer and evangelist. Born in Atlanta,...
Esther Phillips

Esther Phillips

female, deceased (1984)
Esther Mae Jones who performed as Little Esther and as Esther Phillips, was an American singer; she performed in the pop, country, jazz, and rhythm...
Paul Williams

Paul Williams

male, deceased (2002)
Paul Williams was an American blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist and composer. In his "Honkers and Shouters", Arnold Shaw credits Williams as...
Big Maybelle

Big Maybelle

female, deceased (1972)
Big Maybelle (born Mabel Louise Smith, May 1, 1924 in Jackson, Tennessee - January 23, 1972 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA) was one of the most popular...
Harold Land

Harold Land

male, deceased (2001)
Harold de Vance Land (1928-2001) was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist. He was self-taught, and made his first recording, as the...
Eddie Bert

Eddie Bert

male, 87 years old
Eddie Bert (born May 16, 1922) was a bebop jazz trombonist born in Yonkers, New York, USA. His first job as a musician came in 1940 when he joined...