List of jazz musicians

This is a list of jazz musicians on whom Wikipedia has articles.

Giants of Jazz

"By Birthdate"
Instrumentalists
*Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
*Louis Armstrong (1901–1971)
*Earl Hines (1903–1983)
*Count Basie (1904–1984)
*Fats Waller (1904–1943)
*Benny Goodman (1909-1986)
*Sun Ra (1914-1993)
*Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993)
*Thelonious Monk (1917–1982)
*Charlie Parker (1920–1955)
*Dave Brubeck (b 1920)
*Charlie Mingus (1922–1979)
*Oscar Peterson (1925–2007)
*Miles Davis (1926–1991)
*John Coltrane (1926–1967)
*Ornette Coleman (born 1930)
*Chet Baker (1929-1988)Vocalists
*Billie Holiday (1915–1959)
*Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)
*Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990)

By period

Early jazz musicians

* Louis Armstrong (1901–1971)
* Sidney Bechet (1897–1959)
* Bix Beiderbecke (1903–1931)
* Buddy Bolden (1877–1930)
* Earl Hines (1903–1983)
* Nick LaRocca (1889–1961) & the members of the "Original Dixieland Jazz Band"
* Jelly Roll Morton (1890–1941)
* Joe "King" Oliver (1885–1938)
* Red Nichols (1905–1965)

wing era

*Count Basie (1904–1984)
*Cab Calloway (1907–1994)
*Benny Carter (1907–2003)
*Charlie Christian (1918–1942)
*Jimmy Dorsey (1904–1957)
*Timmy Dosey (1905–1956)
*Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
*Benny Goodman (1909–1986)
*Coleman Hawkins (1904–1969)
*Fletcher Henderson (1897–1952)
*Earl Hines (1903–1983)
*Johnny Hodges (1907–1970)
*Jay McShann (1916–2006)
*Glenn Miller (1904–1944)
*George Paxton
*Artie Shaw (1910–2004)
*Fats Waller (1904–1943)
*Ben Webster (1909–1973)
*Paul Whiteman (1890–1967)

Modern innovators

*Chet Baker (1929-1988
*Dave Brubeck (born 1920)
*Ornette Coleman (born 1930)
*John Coltrane (1926–1967)
*Miles Davis (1926–1991)
*Bill Evans (1929–1980)
*Gil Evans (1912–1988)
*Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993)
*Herbie Hancock (born 1940)
*Joe Harriott (1928–1973)
*Charles Mingus (1922–1979)
*Bill Cosby (born 1937)
*Thelonious Monk (1917–1982)
*Charlie Parker (1920–1955)
*Bud Powell (1924–1966)
*Louis Prima (1910-1978)
*Sun Ra (1914–1993)
*Max Roach (1924–2007)
*Sonny Rollins (born 1930)
*Wayne Shorter (born 1933)
*Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929)
*Sonny Stitt (born 1924)

Jazz fusion

By instrument

there are none

Bagpipes

*Rufus Harley

Bass

*Arild Andersen
*Keter Betts
*Jimmy Blanton
*Wellman Braud (1891–1966)
*Ray Brown (1926–2002)
*Steve Brown
*Ron Carter (born 1937)
*Paul Chambers
*Stanley Clarke
*Art Davis
*Brian Day
*Richard Davis
*Pops Foster
*Jimmy Garrison
*Vivien Garry
*Coleridge Goode
*Henry Grimes
*Charlie Haden
*Stuart Hamm
*Milt Hinton
*Dave Holland
*Bill Johnson (1872–1972)
*Scott La Faro
*Cecil McBee
*Christian McBride
*Ron McClure
*Marcus Miller
*Charles Mingus (1922–1979)
*Red Mitchell
*William Parker
*Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987)
*Gary Peacock
*Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
*Oscar Pettiford
*Sage Reynolds
*Steve Rodby
*Clarence Seay
*Slam Stewart
*Brian Q. Torff
*Eberhard Weber
*Gary Willis
*Eugene Wright
*Richard Bona
*Victor Wooten

Cello

*Mark Summer

Clarinet

* Benny Goodman
* Pete Fountain

Cornet

* Nat Adderley
* Louis Armstrong
* Bix Beiderbecke
* Jeff Hughes
* Red Nichols
* Chris Tyle

Drums

Flute

*Peter Guidi
*Moe Koffman
*Hubert Laws
*Yusef Lateef
*Herbie Mann
*James Newton
*Sam Rivers (born 1923)
*Jeremy Steig

French horn

*Julius Watkins

Guitar

Dan Faehnle

Multi-instrumentalists

*Sidney Bechet (1897–1959), (clarinet, soprano sax, trumpet, bass, drums)
*Jaki Byard (alto sax, piano)
*Benny Carter (1907–2003), (alto sax, trumpet)
*Alice Coltrane (piano, organ, harp)
*Eric Dolphy (1928–1964), (bass clarinet, clarinet, flute, alto sax)
*Victor Feldman (1934-1987), (piano, vibraphone, conga drum)
*Rahsaan Roland Kirk (flute, nose flute, tenor saxophone, manzello, strich, 'black mystery pipes', clarinet, gong, percussion)
*Yusef Lateef (tenor sax, flute, oboe, many other woodwinds)
*Marcus Miller (born 1959), ( bass, bass clarinet, saxophone, keyboards, guitar)
*Charles Mingus (bass, piano)
*Ray Nance (trumpet, violin)
*Helge Schneider (saxophones, clarinet, piano, trumpet, drums)
*John Surman (saxes, clarinets, piano, synthesizer)
*Frank Macchia (saxes, clarinets, flutes, ethnic winds, synthesizer)

Organ

*Alice Coltrane
*Joey DeFrancesco
*Barbara Dennerlein (Hammond-B3, synthesizer, real pipes)
*Bill Doggett
*Charles Earland
*Larry Goldings
*Richard "Groove" Holmes
*Jack McDuff
*Amina Claudine Myers (born 1942)
*John Patton
*Trudy Pitts
*Melvin Rhyne
*Rhoda Scott
*Shirley Scott
*Jimmy Smith
*Lonnie Smith
*Lonnie Liston Smith
*Fats Waller (1904–1943)
*Reuben Wilson
*Larry Young
*Sun Ra (1914–1993)
*Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004)(Piano)
*Harold Ivory Williams Jr. (organ, keyboard, piano, sitar)

Saxophone

Trombone

Sammy Smith

Trumpet

*Louis Armstrong
*Chet Baker
*Miles Davis
*Dizzy Gillespie
*Clifford Brown
*Lee Morgan
*Roy Hargrove
*Dave Douglas
*Terence Blanchard
*Nicholas Payton

Vibraphone

*Peter Appleyard
*Roy Ayers
*Gary Burton
*John Cocuzzi
*Walt Dickerson
*Stefon Harris
*Lionel Hampton
*Bobby Hutcherson
*Milt Jackson
*Max Miller
*Joe Locke
*Steve Nelson
*Red Norvo
*Chuck Redd
*Jerry Tachoir
*Cal Tjader
*James Westfall

Violin

*Billy Bang (born 1947)
*Regina Carter (born 1966)
*Stéphane Grappelli (1908–1997)
*Valentin Gregor (born 1963)
*Jean-Luc Ponty (born 1942)
*Stuff Smith (1909–1967)
*Ginger Smock (1920–1995)
*Eddie South (1904-1962)
*Joe Venuti (1903–1978)
*Michael White (born 1933)
*Claude Williams (1908–2004)
*Ray Nance (1913–1976)
*Mark Feldman (born 1955)

Vocal