Topic: Musicians/Artists

  • December 6, 2025
    Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš (born 6 December 1947) is a Czech jazz bassist. He is known as a founding member of…
  • December 6, 2025
    Francis Dunlop (December 6, 1928 – July 7, 2014) was an American jazz drummer. Dunlop, born in Buffalo, New York,…
  • December 6, 2025
    Joseph Francis Lamb (December 6, 1887 – September 3, 1960 Montclair, NJ) was an American composer of ragtimemusic. Lamb, of…
  • December 6, 2025
    David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as…
  • December 5, 2025
    Arthur David Davis (December 5, 1934 – July 29, 2007) was a double-bassist, known for his work with Thelonious Monk,…
  • December 5, 2025
    Willie Earl Walker (December 23, 1941  – November 19, 2019), also known as Wee Willie Walker, was an American soul…
  • December 5, 2025
    John William Pate (born December 5, 1923) is an American former musician, a jazz bassist who became a producer, arranger,…
  • December 5, 2025
    John Weldon "JJ" Cale (December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Though he…
  • December 5, 2025
    Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), better known by his stage name Little Richard, was an…
  • December 5, 2025
    Alex or Aleck Miller (originally Ford, possibly December 5, 1912 – May 24, 1965), known later in his career as Sonny Boy…
  • December 5, 2025
    Egberto Amin Gismonti (born 5 December 1947) is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist. Gismonti is a self-taught guitarist. After…
  • December 4, 2025
    Larry Davis (December 4, 1936 – April 19, 1994) was an American electric Texas blues and soul blues musician. He…
  • December 4, 2025
    Lynford "Hux" Brown (4 December 1944 – 18 June 2020) was a Jamaican guitarist who featured on many successful rocksteady…
  • December 4, 2025
    Christopher Hillman (born December 4, 1944 LA) is an American musician. He was the original bassist of the Byrds. With…
  • December 4, 2025
    James Stanley Hall (December 4, 1930 – December 10, 2013 Buffalo, NY) was an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger.…
  • December 3, 2025
    John "Mickey" Michael Thomas (born December 3, 1949) is an American rock singer. He is best known as one of…
  • December 3, 2025
    Melbourne Robert Cranshaw (December 3, 1932 – November 2, 2016) was an American jazz bassist. His career spanned the heyday…
  • December 3, 2025
    Frank Grillo (born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo; December 3, 1909 – April 15, 1984) known professionally as Machito (previously as…
  • December 3, 2025
    Kanaka Dasa (1509–1606) also known as Daasashreshta Kanakadasa (ದಾಸಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠ ಕನಕದಾಸ), was a Haridasa saint and philosopher of Dvaita Vedanta, from…
  • December 2, 2025
    Ronald Mathews (December 2, 1935, in New York City – June 28, 2008, in Brooklyn) was an American jazz pianist…
  • December 2, 2025
    Tal Wilkenfeld (born 2 December 1986) is an Australian bassist, singer and songwriter. She has performed with artists including Chick…
  • December 2, 2025
    Charlie Ventura (born Charles Venturo; December 2, 1916 – January 17, 1992) was an American tenor saxophonist and bandleader from…
  • December 2, 2025
    Wynton Charles Kelly (December 2, 1931 – April 12, 1971) was an American jazzpianist and composer. He is known for…
  • December 1, 2025
    John Paul Densmore (born December 1, 1944) is an American musician. He is best known as the drummer of the…
  • December 1, 2025
    Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945 Honolulu) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and author. Throughout her six-decade career Midler…
  • December 1, 2025
    Sander Lloyd Nelson (December 1, 1938 – February 14, 2022) was an American drummer. Nelson, one of the best-known rock…
  • December 1, 2025
    Ike Isaacs (December 1, 1919, Rangoon, Burma – January 11, 1996, Sydney, Australia) was a Burmese-English jazz guitarist, best known…
  • December 1, 2025
    John Francis Anthony Pastorius III, also known as Jaco Pastorius ( December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987), was an…
  • November 30, 2025
    Johnny Mbizo Dyani (30 November 1945 – 24 October 1986) was a South African jazzdouble bassist, vocalist and pianist, who,…
  • November 30, 2025
    Johnny Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes Jr.; November 30, 1953 LA,CA) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist.…
  • November 30, 2025
    Velbert Lewis Jr. (born November 30, 1954 Philadelphia) is an American contemporary jazzmusician. His primary instrument of choice is the…
  • November 30, 2025
    Robert Lee McCollum (November 30, 1909 – November 5, 1967 Helena, AK) was an American blues musician who played and…
  • November 29, 2025
    Felix Cavaliere (born November 29, 1942 NY) is an American musician. He is best known for being the co-lead vocalist…
  • November 29, 2025
    John Brumwell Mayall OBE (29 November 1933 – 22 July 2024) was an English blues and rockmusician, songwriter and producer.…
  • November 29, 2025
    Billy Hart (born November 29, 1940 DC) is an American jazz drummer and educator. He is known internationally for his…
  • November 29, 2025
    John Lamb (born November 29, 1933) is an American jazz double bassist who was a member of the Duke Ellington…
  • November 28, 2025
    Maria Farantouri or Farandouri (Greek: Μαρία Φαραντούρη; born 28 November 1947) is a Greek singer and also a political and…
  • November 28, 2025
    Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer, songwriter, arranger, pianist, composer, conductor and orchestrator. He is…
  • November 28, 2025
    Leandro "Gato" Barbieri (November 28, 1932 – April 2, 2016) was an Argentine jazztenor saxophonist who rose to fame during…
  • November 28, 2025
    Gigi Gryce (born George General Grice Jr.; November 28, 1925 – March 17, 1983), later in life changing his name…
  • November 27, 2025
    Albert J. Jackson Jr. (November 27, 1935 – October 1, 1975) was an American drummer, producer, and songwriter. He was…
  • November 27, 2025
    Randal Edward Brecker (born November 27, 1945) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, and composer. His versatility has made him a…
  • November 27, 2025
    Lyle David Mays (November 27, 1953 – February 10, 2020) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and member of the…
  • November 27, 2025
    James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer, and…
  • November 26, 2025
    November 26th Miho Nobuzane hails from Osaka, Japan, and was a classical piano major in college in Japan. It was…
  • November 26, 2025
    Jim Mullen (born 26 November 1945) is a Scottish, Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style, like Wes Montgomery before…
  • November 26, 2025
    Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, actress, and author.…
  • November 26, 2025
    Robert Andrew Kreinar (November 26, 1937 – July 16, 2012), known as Bob Babbitt, was an American bassist, most famous…
  • November 26, 2025
    Nesuhi Ertegun (Turkish Nesuhi Ertegün; November 26, 1917 – July 15, 1989) was a Turkish-American record producer and executive of…
  • November 25, 2025
    Percy Tyrone Sledge (November 25, 1940 – April 14, 2015) was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. He is best…
  • November 25, 2025
    Nathaniel Carlyle Adderley (November 25, 1931 – January 2, 2000 Tampa) was an American jazztrumpeter and composer. He was the…
  • November 25, 2025
    Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977)was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer…
  • November 24, 2025
    Donald "Duck" Dunn (November 24, 1941 – May 13, 2012) was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and…
  • November 24, 2025
    Wild Bill Davis (November 24, 1918 – August 17, 1995 Glasgow, MO) was the stage name of American jazz pianist,…
  • November 24, 2025
    Theodore Shaw Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist. Described by critic Scott Yanow…
  • November 24, 2025
    Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime",…
  • November 23, 2025
    R. L. Burnside (November 23, 1926 – September 1, 2005) was an American hill country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.…
  • November 23, 2025
    Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdiin…
  • November 23, 2025
    John Alfred Mandel (November 23, 1925 – June 29, 2020) was an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music…
  • November 23, 2025
    Jack Wilton Marshall (November 23, 1921 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, and record producer.…