Occupation-Entertainer-Jazz Composer
Teddy Wilson (1912-1986)
Orchestral pianist, violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger of the Swing to Bebop eras, Teddy Wilson was born Theodore Shaw Wilson...
Grover Washington (1943-1999)
Grover Washington was a popular American jazz saxophonist, with a style reflecting soul-jazz and jazz funk, as well as a...
Pharoah Sanders (1940- )
Composer/ Improvisational Jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders was born on October 13, 1940, in Little Rock, Arkansas, as Farrell Sanders. An...
The Crusaders / The Jazz Crusaders (1954-2010)
The musical moment in jazz fusion in the United States was 1954 when pianist Joseph Leslie Sample, born on February...
Nestor Torres (1957- )
Virtuoso technician Classical, jazz, composer Nestor Miguel Torres was born on April 25, 1957, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, to Nestor...
Billy Taylor (William Edward Taylor, Jr.) (1921-2010)
Billy Taylor was an African American jazz pianist, composer, recording artist, educator, and broadcaster. Born in Greenville, North Carolina on...
Eubie Blake (1883-1983)
Eubie Blake was born James Hubert Blake in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 7, 1883. He died one hundred years later...
John William Coltrane (1926-1967)
John William Coltrane emerged as one of the most innovative and influential jazz musicians of the 20th century. Born in...
Edward “Duke” Ellington (1899-1974)
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington is one of the greatest jazz composers, performers, and bandleaders in American history. His compositions, and...
