- male, 66 years old
- Maceo Parker (born February 14, 1943) is a noted American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s....
- male, 74 years old
- Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. (born May 27, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American jazz and pop pianist and keyboardist. Lewis, drummer Isaac...
- male, 69 years old
- Wilton Felder (born on August 31, 1940 in Houston, Texas) is both a saxophone and bass player, and is best known as a founding member of The...
- male, deceased (1977)
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a blind American jazz multi-instrumentalist. He was perhaps best known for his ability to play more than one saxophone at...
- male, 69 years old
- Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940, Los Angeles) is a funk, soul and jazz vibraphone player.
- male, 70 years old
- Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer and session musician from Elkton, Maryland. He moved to New York in 1960 and...
- male, deceased (1971)
- Curtis Ousley, who performed under the name King Curtis, was an American tenor, alto, and soprano saxophonist who played rhythm and blues, soul,...
- female, deceased (2003)
- Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Although she disliked...
- male, deceased (1996)
- Eddie Harris was best known for playing tenor saxophone, though he was also fluent on the electric piano and organ. Harris also came up with the...
- 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...
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