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- October 12, 2025James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, Jr. (October 12, 1934 – September 15, 2012) was an American R&B musician based in New…
- October 12, 2025Frank Floyd, known as Harmonica Frank (October 11, 1908 – August 7, 1984) was an American blues singer, guitarist and…
- October 12, 2025Alfred "Tubby" Hall (October 12, 1895 – May 13, 1945) was an American jazz drummer. Hall was born in Sellers,…
- October 11, 2025Lester Bowie (October 11, 1941 – November 8, 1999) was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a…
- October 11, 2025Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and…
- October 11, 2025Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known…
- October 10, 2025October 10th 1948 NOLA Keyboards, vocals, composer. AKA Ed "Zeke" Volker, Zeke Fishead.Founding member, singer, songwriter, and keyboardist of American…
- October 10, 2025John Edward Prine (October 10, 1946 – April 7, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter of country-folk music. Widely cited as…
- October 10, 2025Julian Clifford Mance, Jr. (October 10, 1928 – January 17, 2021 Chicago), known as Junior Mance, was an American jazz…
- October 10, 2025Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a…
- October 9, 2025John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and activist. He…
- October 9, 2025Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His…
- October 9, 2025Kenny Garrett (born October 9, 1960 Detroit) is an American post-bop jazz musician and composer who gained recognition in his…
- October 9, 2025Dionisio Jesús Valdés Rodríguez, better known as Chucho (born October 9, 1941), is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger…
- October 9, 2025Abdullah Ibrahim (born Adolph Johannes Brand on 9 October 1934), previously known as Dollar Brand, is a South African pianist…
- October 9, 2025Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013 Chattanooga, TN) was an American jazzmulti-instrumentalist,…
- October 8, 2025Clarence Williams (October 8, 1898 or October 6, 1893 – November 6, 1965 Plaquemine, Louisiana,) was an American jazz pianist,…
- October 8, 2025Roddis Franklin "Pete" Drake (October 8, 1932 – July 29, 1988)[1] was a Nashville-based American record producer and pedal steel…
- October 8, 2025Al Duncan (October 8, 1927, McKinney, Texas — January 3, 1995, Las Vegas) was an American drummer and songwriter. Music…
- October 8, 2025Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III (October 8, 1930 – September 10, 1986 Highland Park, MI) was an American jazz baritone…
- October 8, 2025Owen Joseph "Sonny" Igoe (October 8, 1923 – March 28, 2012) was an American jazz drummer and music educator who,…
- October 7, 2025Mel Brown (October 7, 1939 – March 20, 2009 Jackson, MS) was an American-born blues guitarist and singer. He is…
- October 7, 2025Larry Young (also known as Khalid Yasin [Abdul Aziz]; October 7, 1940 – March 30, 1978 Newark, NJ) was an…
- October 7, 2025Jonathan David Samuel Jones (October 7, 1911 – September 3, 1985 Chicago) was an American jazz drummer. A band leader…
- October 6, 2025David Kent Hidalgo (born October 6, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los…
- October 6, 2025Millicent Dolly May Small CD (6 October 1947 – 5 May 2020) was a Jamaican singer who is best known for…
- October 6, 2025Flora MacNeil, MBE (6 October 1928 – 15 May 2015) was a Scottish Gaelictraditional singer. MacNeil gained prominence after meeting…
- October 6, 2025Tony Oladipo Allen (20 July 1940 – 30 April 2020) was a Nigerian-Ghanaian drummer, composer, and songwriter who lived and…
- October 5, 2025Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof ( born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter and political activist. He rose to prominence in…
- October 5, 2025Sandra "Puma" Jones (October 5, 1953—January 28, 1990) was an American singer, best known as a member of the Grammy…
- October 5, 2025Delroy George Wilson CD (5 October 1948 – 6 March 1995)was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer. Wilson is…
- October 5, 2025James Blanton (October 5, 1918 – July 30, 1942 Chattanooga, TN) was an American jazz double bassist. Blanton is credited…
- October 4, 2025Francisco Guerrero (October 4 (?), 1528 – November 8, 1599) was a Spanish Catholic priest and composer of the Renaissance.…
- October 4, 2025Edgar Gómez (born October 4, 1944) is a Puerto Rican jazz double bassist, known for his work with the Bill…
- October 4, 2025Steve Swallow (born October 4, 1940) is an American jazz bassist and composer, known for his collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre,…
- October 3, 2025Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951 South LA, CA), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician. He…
- October 3, 2025Ramesh Mishra (Hindi: रमेश मिश्रा, surname also spelled Misra) (Varanasi, India, 2 October 1948 – New York, U.S., 13 March…
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- October 3, 2025Stephen Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990 Dallas, TX), also known abbreviated as SRV, was an American…
- October 2, 2025Roy Powell (born 2 October 1965 in Langham, Rutland) is a British jazz pianist. His mother, Joan Powell, was a…
- October 2, 2025Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial activist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance…
- October 2, 2025Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise (October 2, 1915 – January 6, 1996) was an American bluegrass and country fiddler.[ Originally starting…
- October 2, 2025Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known professionally as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter, musician, activist, and…
- October 2, 2025Howard Mancel Roberts (October 2, 1929 – June 28, 1992) was an American jazzguitarist, educator, and session musician. Roberts was…
- October 1, 2025Ellen McIlwaine (October 1, 1945 – June 23, 2021) was an American-born singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career…
- October 1, 2025Youssou N'Dour (also known as Youssou Madjiguène Ndour; born 1 October 1959) is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and…
- October 1, 2025David Holland (born 1 October 1946) is an English double bassist, bass guitarist, cellist, composer and bandleader who has been…
- October 1, 2025Albert Gene Collins (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993 Leona, TX) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer…
- September 30, 2025Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet. He was…
- September 30, 2025Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez (September 30, 1946 – June 29, 1993), better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Ricansalsa…
- September 30, 2025Oscar Pettiford (September 30, 1922 – September 8, 1960 Okmulgee, OK)was an American jazz double bassist and composer. He was…
- September 30, 2025Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987)was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is…
- September 29, 2025Roy Sinclair Campbell Jr. (September 29, 1952 – January 9, 2014) was an American trumpeter frequently linked to free jazz,…
- September 29, 2025Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz and jazz fusion violinist and composer. He is considered a…
- September 29, 2025Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935 – October 28, 2022) was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter. Nicknamed "The Killer", he…
- September 28, 2025John Gilmore (September 28, 1931 – August 20, 1995 Summit, MS) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and percussionist. He…
- September 28, 2025Kenneth David Kirkland (September 28, 1955 – November 12, 1998 Brooklyn, NY) was an American pianist and keyboardist. In 1980,…
- September 28, 2025Koko Taylor (born Cora Ann Walton, September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009 Memphis, TN) was an American singer whose…