Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman

male, 79 years old
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...
Toni Braxton

Toni Braxton

female, 42 years old
Toni Michelle Braxton (born October 7, 1967 in Severn, Maryland) is a six-time Grammy Award-winning American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress...
George Crumb

George Crumb

male, 80 years old
George Crumb (born October 24, 1929) is an American composer of modern and avant garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and...

Edgard Varèse

male, deceased (1965)
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the USA. The record label V...

Peter Brötzmann

male, 68 years old
Peter Brötzmann is a German free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough, ly...
Charlemagne Palestine

Charlemagne Palestine

male, 64 years old
Charlemagne Palestine (born Charles Martin or Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine August 15, 1945 or 1947, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American...

Lauren Newton

female
Lauren Newton is an avant-garde jazz and contemporary classical singer, composer and teacher, best known as a founding member of the Vienna Art...
Daniel Carter

Daniel Carter

male
Daniel Carter (born 1945 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American free jazz saxophone, flute, clarinet, and trumpet player active mainly in New...
Phil Lesh

Phil Lesh

male, 69 years old (San Rafael, California, United States)
Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California) is a musician and founding member of the rock band, Grateful Dead; he played...
Frances-Marie Uitti

Frances-Marie Uitti

female
Composer-improviser-cellist Frances-Marie Uitti is renowned performer of contemporary music and is also famous for her extended technique using two...