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