Miles Davis

Miles Davis

male, deceased (1991)
cool jazz, trumpet, bebop, Jazz fusion, Bebop musician, Trumpet player…Jazz trumpeter, Jazz trumpet player, Jazz composer, Cool jazz trumpeter, Modal jazz trumpeter
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 - September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, widely considered one of the most influential of the 20th...
Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman

male, 79 years old
Freejazz musician, pulitzer prize, From Fort Worth, Texas, composer, Pulitzer Prize for Music winner, Avant-garde jazz musician…Free funk musician, Jazz alto saxophonist, freejazz, jazz musician, Jazz violinist
Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the...
Sun Ra

Sun Ra

male, deceased (1993)
Progressive big band pianist, Experimental big band pianist, poet, Experimental big band bandleader, swing music, Free improvisation pianist…Progressive jazz pianist, Freejazz pianist, Free improvisation, Mainstream jazz pianist, American jazz bandleader
Sun Ra (Born Herman Poole Blount; legal name Le Sony'r Ra; born May 22, 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama, died May 30, 1993 in Birmingham, Alabama) was...
Cecil Taylor

Cecil Taylor

male, 80 years old
Avant-garde jazz musician, musician, freejazz, LGBT musician, From Queen, from the United States…jazz pianist
Cecil Percival Taylor (born March 15 or March 25, 1929 in New York City) is an American pianist and poet. Along with Ornette Coleman, he is now...
Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus

male, deceased (1979)
Post-bop double-bassist, Bebop double-bassist, Avant-garde double-bassist, American jazz bandleader, Progressive big band bandleader, Early Creative double-bassist…Jazz bandleader, Jazz composer, jazz pianist, jazz, jazz musician
Charles Mingus, also known as Charlie Mingus, was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his...
Eric Dolphy

Eric Dolphy

male, deceased (1964)
Avant-garde jazz musician, expatriate, American jazz flautist, from Los Angeles, saxophonist, American jazz alto saxophonist…Jazz composer, jazz musician, jazz, Jazz flautist, Jazz alto saxophonist
Eric Allan Dolphy (June 20, 1928 - June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist and bass clarinetist. Dolphy was one of several...

William Parker

male, 57 years old
Frank Lowe, Kora, Avant-garde jazz musician, Kora player, Other Dimensions In Music, Rob Brown…Jazz bassist, freejazz
William Parker (b. Bronx, New York City, New York, January 10, 1952) is an American free jazz double bassist. As a bassist, Parker is possessed of...
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, freejazz, 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...
Matthew Shipp

Matthew Shipp

male, 48 years old
Free improvisation pianist, Freejazz pianist, Avant-garde pianist, Modern Creative pianist, Post-bop pianist, El-P…freejazz, jazz pianist, jazz musician
Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American free jazz pianist. Shipp has been very active in the 1990s, appearing on dozens of albums as a...
Gil Evans

Gil Evans

male, deceased (1988)
cool jazz, Progressive jazz arranger, Jazz fusion arranger, Cool jazz arranger, Experimental big band arranger, Post-bop arranger…Jazz composer, jazz pianist, jazz, Jazz bandleader, freejazz
Gil Evans was a jazz musician and an important innovator of big band jazz in the United States as an arranger, composer, bandleader, and pianist....