Dave Holland

Dave Holland

male, 63 years old
Avant-garde jazz musician, avant-garde jazz, From Wolverhampton, bassist, jazz, composer…Jazz composer, Jazz double-bassist, jazz musician
Dave Holland (born October 1, 1946) is a jazz bassist and composer who is a significant representator of avant-garde jazz.
Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Sanders

male, 69 years old
Progressive jazz saxophonist, rhythm and blues, dissonant, Hard-bop saxophonist, American jazz saxophonist, Avant-garde saxophonist…avant-garde jazz, free jazz, jazz musician, Jazz saxophonist, jazz
Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist. Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in...
Roy Haynes

Roy Haynes

male, 83 years old
Neo-bop drummer, Avant-garde drummer, Bebop drummer, Hard-bop drummer, Where As, Roy Owen Haynes…avant-garde jazz, jazz, jazz drummer, jazz musician
Roy Owen Haynes, born on March 13 1926, in Boston, Massachusetts, is an American jazz drummer who began his full time professional career in 1945....
Phil Woods

Phil Woods

male, 78 years old
Bandleader, hard bop, Stephane Grappelli, Louis Bellson, Hard-bop saxophonist, American jazz alto saxophonist…Progressive jazz, Progressive jazz saxophonist, Progressive jazz clarinetist, Jazz bandleader, jazz musician
Philip Wells Woods (born November 2 1931) is an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer. He also performed in...
Wadada Leo Smith

Wadada Leo Smith

male, 67 years old
Avant-garde jazz musician, Wesleyan University alumni, music educator, Flugelhorn player, Rastafarian, multi-instrumentalist…American jazz trumpeter, jazz musician, avant-garde jazz, Jazz trumpeter
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (18 December 1941 in Leland, Mississippi) is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz...
Roswell Rudd

Roswell Rudd

male, 74 years old
Avant-garde jazz musician, sharon, Kora, free jazz, avant-garde jazz, New York Eye and Ear Control…jazz musician, Jazz trombonist
Roswell Rudd (born Roswell Hopkins Rudd, Jr. in Sharon, Connecticut, on November 17, 1935) is an American jazz trombonist. Although skilled in all...
Henry Threadgill

Henry Threadgill

male, 68 years old
American jazz flautist, Avant-garde jazz musician, cello, Bass, American, baritone saxophone…Jazz alto saxophonist, avant-garde jazz, Jazz flautist
Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944, Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist. Threadgill first performed as a...
Jan Garbarek

Jan Garbarek

male, 62 years old
musician, saxophonist, saxophone, Jazz saxophonist, Avant-garde jazz musician, dis…avant-garde jazz, jazz, jazz musician
Jan Garbarek (born March 4, 1947 in Mysen, Norway) a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music...
Andrew Cyrille

Andrew Cyrille

male, 70 years old
avant-garde jazz, Avant-garde jazz musician, jazz musician, jazz drummer, Jazz bandleader, drummer…jazz
Andrew Charles Cyrille is an avant-garde jazz drummer.
Rashied Ali

Rashied Ali

male, 74 years old
Free jazz drummer, Avant-garde drummer, American jazz drummer, avant-garde jazz, free jazz, ascension…jazz drummer, jazz musician
Rashied Ali (born Robert Patterson on 1 July 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz drummer best known...