Horace Silver

Horace Silver

male, 80 years old
Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer.... More
Galt Macdermot

Galt Macdermot

male, 79 years old
Galt MacDermot (born 18 December 1928 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian pianist, composer and writer of musical theatre. He was educated at Upper... More
Cheb I Sabbah

Cheb I Sabbah

male (San Francisco, California, United States)
Cheb-i-Sabbah, born Haim Sérge El Baaz, a Jew of Berber (Amazigh) descent in Constantine, Algeria. He moved to Paris in the 1960s, and, more or l... More
Prince Nico Mbarga

Prince Nico Mbarga

male, deceased (1997)
Prince Nico Mbarga (1 January 1950 - 24 June, 1997) was a highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father in Abakaliki,... More
Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann

male, deceased (2003)
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 - July 1, 2003), better known as Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of... More
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

male, deceased (1912)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (August 15, 1875-September 1, 1912) was a black, English composer who achieved such success he was called "The Black Mahler."
Michael Blake

Michael Blake

male
Michael Blake is a South African contemporary classical music composer. The composer studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg... More
Simha Arom

Simha Arom

male
Simha Arom is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as an expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of Central African... More

Marion Brown

male
Marion Brown (born 8 September 1935 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is a jazz alto-saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. Brown studied music education,... More
Mohamed Mounir

Mohamed Mounir

male, 54 years old
Mohamed (born October 10 1954) is a Nubian-Egyptian singer who was born in Aswan, Egypt. His pop-oriented music has its roots in the various... More