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- October 26, 2025Eddie Henderson (born October 26, 1940 NY) is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. He came to prominence in…
- October 26, 2025Born October 26, 1951 · Detroit, Michigan, USA Died January 21, 2017 · New York City, New York, USA (breast…
- October 26, 2025Bassam Saba (26 October 1958 – 4 December 2020) was a Lebanese musician and a promoter of Arabic music in the…
- October 25, 2025Earl Cyril Palmer (October 25, 1924 – September 19, 2008) was an American drummer. Considered one of the inventors of…
- October 25, 2025James Edward Heath (October 25, 1926 – January 19, 2020), nicknamed Little Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger,…
- October 25, 2025Georges Bizet (Alexandre César Léopold Bizet; 25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best…
- October 25, 2025Greig Stewart "Chubby" Jackson (October 25, 1918 – October 1, 2003) was an American jazz double-bassist and band leader. Born…
- October 25, 2025Eddie Lang (born Salvatore Massaro; October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933 Philadelphia) was an American musician who is credited…
- October 24, 2025Odean Pope (born October 24, 1938) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Pope was born in Ninety Six, South Carolina…
- October 24, 2025Willie James Mabon (October 24, 1925 – April 19, 1985) was an American R&B singer, songwriter, pianist, and harmonica player.…
- October 24, 2025Saunders Terrell (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986), known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk…
- October 23, 2025Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and R&B saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor…
- October 23, 2025William "Sonny" Criss (23 October 1927 – 19 November 1977) was an American jazzmusician. An alto saxophonist of prominence during…
- October 22, 2025Leslie Abel West (born Weinstein; October 22, 1945 – December 23, 2020 NY) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.…
- October 22, 2025Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, and teacher of the…
- October 22, 2025Cándido Camero Guerra (22 April 1921 (October 22) – 7 November 2020), known simply as Cándido, was a Cuban conga and bongo…
- October 21, 2025Steven Lee Cropper (born October 21, 1941), sometimes known as "The Colonel", is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer.…
- October 21, 2025Manfred Mann were an English rock band formed in London in 1962. They were named after their keyboardist Manfred Mann,…
- October 21, 2025Isaiah Ross (October 21, 1925 – May 28, 1993), known as Doctor Ross, was an American blues musician who usually…
- October 21, 2025Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso (21 October 1925 – 16 July 2003), known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and…
- October 21, 2025John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator…
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- October 20, 2025William Jones Jr. (October 20, 1929 – April 1991) was a jazz drummer. He is known for playing and recording…
- October 20, 2025Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was the leader…
- October 20, 2025Eddie Harris (October 20, 1934 – November 5, 1996 Chicago) was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor…
- October 20, 2025Zap Mama is a Belgian singer-songwriter, performer, composer, lyricist, activist, video artist and ethno-vocal therapist born in the Democratic Republic of…
- October 20, 2025Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (né Lemott,later Morton; c. September 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941 NOLA), known professionally as Jelly Roll…
- October 20, 2025Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954 Danbury, Connecticut) was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman.…
- October 18, 2025William Cox (born October 18, 1941) is an American bassist, best known for performing with Jimi Hendrix. Cox is the…
- October 18, 2025Esperanza Emily Spalding (born October 18, 1984), sometimes professionally known with the stylized name of esperanza spalding, is an American…
- October 18, 2025Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961 NOLA) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the…
- October 18, 2025aura Nyro (born Laura Nigro; October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter and singer. She achieved critical…
- October 17, 2025Emmanuel “Rico” Rodriguez MBE (17 October 1934 – 4 September 2015), also known as Rico, Reco or El Reco, was…
- October 17, 2025David Nesta "Ziggy" Marley (born 17 October 1968) is a Jamaican reggae musician, songwriter, producer, author and philanthropist. The eldest…
- October 17, 2025Luiz Floriano Bonfá (17 October 1922 – 12 January 2001) was a Brazilian guitaristand composer. He was best known for…
- October 17, 2025Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004 Muskogee, OK) was an American jazz guitarist. Known in particular for…
- October 17, 2025William Randolph "Cozy" Cole (October 17, 1909 – January 9, 1981) was an American jazz drummer who worked with Cab…
- October 16, 2025Angel Cachete Maldonado When Ruben Angel “Cachete” Maldonado died Friday, January 11 (2020), Puerto Rico lost a giant. The visionary,…
- October 16, 2025Roger G. Hawkins (October 16, 1945 – May 20, 2021) was an American drummerbest known for playing as part of…
- October 16, 2025Robert Hall Weir ( Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding…
- October 16, 2025Edward Hoh (October 16, 1944 – November 7, 2015 Forest Park, Ill) was an American rock drummer who was active…
- October 16, 2025Christa Päffgen (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁɪsta ˈpɛfɡn̩]; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), known by her stage name Nico, was…
- October 16, 2025Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982 Oktibbeha County, Mississippi) was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer,…
- October 15, 2025Nellie Rose Lutcher (October 15, 1912 – June 8, 2007) was an American R&B and jazz singer and pianist, who…
- October 15, 2025Natesan Ramani (15 October 1934 – 9 October 2015), commonly known as N. Ramanior N. Flute Ramani, was an Indian…
- October 15, 2025MacHouston "Mickey" Baker (October 15, 1925 – November 27, 2012 Louisville, KY) was an American musician, best known for his…
- October 15, 2025Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì (Yoruba: born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti; 15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997) was a Nigerian musician and…
- October 14, 2025James "Son" Thomas (October 14, 1926 – June 26, 1993) was an American Delta blues musician and sculptor. Thomas was…
- October 14, 2025Jewell Stovall, better known as Babe Stovall (October 14, 1907 – September 21, 1974), was an American Delta blues singer…
- October 14, 2025Marcia Barrett (born 14 October 1948) is a British singer and one of the original singers with the vocal group…
- October 14, 2025Kazumi Watanabe (Japanese: 渡辺 香津美, Hepburn: Watanabe Kazumi; born October 14, 1953 in Tokyo) is a Japanese guitarist. Other guitarists…
- October 14, 2025Robert Parker (October 14, 1930 – January 19, 2020) was an American R&B singer. His sole hit was "Barefootin'" (1966),…
- October 14, 2025Pandit Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee (14 October 1931 – 27 January 1986) was an Indian classical sitarist of the Maihar Gharana. Along…
- October 13, 2025Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for his solo work and his…
- October 13, 2025Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997), also known by his initials NFAK, was a…
- October 13, 2025Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for…
- October 13, 2025Raymond Matthews Brown (October 13, 1926 – July 2, 2002 Pittsburgh) was an American jazzdouble bassist, known for his extensive…
- October 13, 2025Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as…