Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter

male, 76 years old
Jazz fusion saxophonist, Jazz tenor saxophonist, Hard-bop saxophonist, Post-bop saxophonist, Crossover jazz saxophonist, Modal jazz saxophonist…Progressive jazz saxophonist, jazzstandard, jazz, Jazz composer, jazz musician
Wayne Shorter (born August 25 1933) is an American jazz composer and saxophonist. Commonly regarded as one of the more important American jazz sax...
Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck

male, 88 years old
cool jazz, Third Stream pianist, American jazz songwriter, Classical pianist, American military personnel of World War II, West Coast jazz pianist…Cool jazz pianist, jazzstandard, jazz musician, Jazz composer, jazz pianist
David Warren Brubeck (born December 6, 1920 in Concord, California), better known as Dave Brubeck, is a U.S. jazz pianist. Often regarded as a...
Paul Motian

Paul Motian

male, 78 years old
American jazz drummer, Avant-garde jazz musician, bassist, jazzstandard, Armenian language, Armenian-American…standard tunes, jazz, jazz musician, jazz drummer
Paul Motian is an American jazz drummer who splits his time evenly and effectively between the postwar styles of bebop, post-bop, cool jazz and...
Benny Golson

Benny Golson

male, 80 years old
hard bop, Bebop saxophonist, Hard-bop saxophonist, bebop, Pennsylvania musician, jazzstandard…Jazz tenor saxophonist, jazz musician, Jazz composer, jazz
Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. While in high school in...
Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron

male, deceased (2002)
Modal jazz pianist, Progressive jazz pianist, Avant-garde pianist, Hard-bop pianist, Post-bop pianist, rhythm and blues…Jazz composer, jazz pianist, jazz, jazzstandard, free jazz
Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer. Born in New York City, his jazz work was chiefly in the hard bop,...
Kurt Weill

Kurt Weill

male, deceased (1950)
Gisela May, Musician who left Nazi Germany, Classical composer, Jewish, German, classical music…jazzstandard
Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 - April 3, 1950), was a German, and in his later years German-American, composer active from the 1920s until his...
Steve Davis

Steve Davis

male, 42 years old
University of Hartford, jazzstandard, Michael Weiss, Avishai Cohen, Portrait in Sound, The Hartt School…jazz, Jazz trombonist
Steve Davis (born in 1967) is an American jazz trombonist who plays hard bop, post-bop, and standards. He studied jazz at The Hartt School of the...
Warne Marsh

Warne Marsh

male, deceased (1987)
Cool jazz saxophonist, cool jazz, jazzstandard, violin, cool, actress
Warne Marion Marsh (26 October 1927 - 17 December 1987) was an American saxophonist born in Los Angeles. Marsh came from an affluent background:...
Mercer Ellington

Mercer Ellington

male, deceased (1996)
Mercer K. Ellington, Big band bandleader, Swing trumpeter, Duke Ellington Orchestra member, death by myocardial infarction, jazzstandard…jazz, Jazz composer, Jazz trumpeter, jazz standards
Mercer K. Ellington (11 March 1919-8 February 1996) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. Ellington was born in Washington, DC,...
Emily Remler

Emily Remler

female, deceased (1990)
Jazz fusion guitarist, Hard-bop guitarist, Women in jazz, hard bop, Women, rock and roll…jazz, Jazz fusion, jazzstandard, jazz guitarist
Emily Remler (September 18, 1957 - May 4, 1990) was an American jazz guitarist who rose to prominence in the 1980s. She recorded seven albums of...