- male, 87 years old
- Earl Lavon Freeman Sr.(born October 3, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois) is a hard bop tenor saxophonist. He is also the father of Chico Freeman. He...
- female, 45 years old
- Barbara Dennerlein (born 25 September 1964 in Munich, Germany), is a hard bop and post-bop Hammond B3 organist whose 1980s recordings helped to...
- male, 67 years old
- Grady Tate, (born January 14, 1932 in Durham, North Carolina), is a hard bop and soul-jazz drummer. He has played with Lena Horne, Astrud Gilberto,...
- male, deceased (2002)
- John Patton (born July 12, 1935 in Kansas City, Missouri, died March 19, 2002 in Montclair, New Jersey), sometimes nicknamed Big John Patton, was a...
- female, deceased (2002)
- Shirley Scott (born March 14, 1934 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died March 10, 2002) was a hard bop and soul-jazz organist. She had been an...
- male, 76 years old
- Ben Riley (b. 17 July 1933) is an American hard bop drummer who has worked with Thelonious Monk, Alice Coltrane, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Eddie...
- male, 51 years old
- Kenny Washington (born May 29, 1958) is a hard bop/Neo-bop jazz drummer born in Brooklyn, New York, probably best known for his work with Johnny...
- male, deceased (1979)
- Wilbur Ware (September 8, 1923 - September 9, 1979) was a jazz double-bassist known for his hard bop percussive style. Born in Chicago, Ware taught...
- male, 55 years old
- Tim Berne (born 1954) is an American jazz saxophone player and composer. Though Berne was a music fan, he had no interest in playing a musical...
- male, deceased (1990)
- William Franklin Hardman, Jr. (1933-1990) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist who chiefly played hard bop. While in high school he...
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