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- September 27, 2025Earring George Mayweather (September 27, 1927 – February 12, 1995) was an American electric blues and Chicago blues harmonica player,…
- September 27, 2025Robert Roland Chudnick (September 27, 1927 – May 27, 1994 Philadelphia, PA), known professionally as Red Rodney, was an American…
- September 27, 2025Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was an American jazz pianist and composer. A pioneer…
- September 26, 2025Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist. He has won two Grammy Awards. Bartz was first…
- September 26, 2025Victor Edward Jurusz Jr. (September 26, 1953 – December 31, 2019), known professionally as Vic Juris, was an American jazz…
- September 26, 2025George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned…
- September 25, 2025Kathryn Marie "Kathi" McDonald (September 25, 1948 – October 3, 2012) was an American blues and rock singer and songwriter.…
- September 25, 2025Rossiere "Shadow" Wilson (September 25, 1919 – July 11, 1959 Yonkers, NY) was an American jazz drummer. Much of Wilson's…
- September 25, 2025Roosevelt Melvin "Booba" Barnes (September 25, 1936 – April 2, 1996) was an American Delta blues guitar player and vocalist.…
- September 25, 2025Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally…
- September 25, 2025Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011 El Reno, OK) was an American jazz musician and composer.…
- September 24, 2025Rosa Lee Hawkins was born on October 23, 1945 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was a composer, known for…
- September 24, 2025Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (née Eastman; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author,…
- September 24, 2025Theodore "Fats" Navarro (September 24, 1923 – July 7, 1950) was an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of…
- September 24, 2025Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929) was an American blues and gospel singer-songwriter and…
- September 23, 2025Leslie Coleman McCann (September 23, 1935 – December 29, 2023 Lexington, KY) was an American jazz pianist and vocalist. He…
- September 23, 2025Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded…
- September 23, 2025John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967 Hamlet, NC) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer.…
- September 22, 2025Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi (22 September 1952 – 23 January 2019) was a Zimbabweanmusician, businessman, philanthropist, human rights activist and UNICEF…
- September 22, 2025Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye MFR (born 22 September 1946), known professionally as King Sunny Adé, is a Nigerian jùjú singer,…
- September 21, 2025Henry Butler (September 21, 1948 – July 2, 2018 NOLA) was an American jazz and blues pianist. He learned piano,…
- September 21, 2025Jesse Edwin Davis III (September 21, 1944 – June 22, 1988 Norman, OK) was a Native Americanguitarist. He was well…
- September 21, 2025Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes…
- September 21, 2025James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray(September 21, 1936 – December 7, 2017 Idabel, OK) was an American musician, and was one…
- September 21, 2025Charles Thomas Potter (September 21, 1918 – March 1, 1988) was an American jazz double bass player, best known for…
- September 21, 2025Leroy Eliot "Slam" Stewart (September 21, 1914 – December 10, 1987 Englewood, NJ) was an American jazz double-bass player whose…
- September 20, 2025Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell (September 20, 1927 – November 8, 1992 NYC) was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and…
- September 20, 2025Eric Gale (September 20, 1938 – May 25, 1994 Brooklyn, NY) was an American jazz and jazz fusion guitarist. Gale…
- September 20, 2025Elvira Louise Redd (September 20, 1928 – February 6, 2022 LA,CA) was an American jazzalto saxophone player, vocalist and educator.…
- September 20, 2025Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton (September 20, 1921 – November 25, 2013) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He came to…
- September 19, 2025David Bromberg (born September 19, 1945 Philadelphia. PA) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. An eclectic artist, Bromberg plays…
- September 19, 2025Ellen Naomi Cohen (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974 Baltimore, MD), known professionally by the stage name Cass Elliot,…
- September 19, 2025Henry Kaiser (born September 19, 1952 Oakland, CA) is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a…
- September 19, 2025Muhal Richard Abrams (born Richard Lewis Abrams; September 19, 1930 – October 29, 2017 Chicago) was an American educator, administrator,…
- September 19, 2025Cora "Lovie" Austin (September 19, 1887 – July 8, 1972 Chattanooga, TN) was an American Chicago bandleader, session musician, composer,…
- September 18, 2025Louis Myers Born : September 18, 1929 in Byhalia, Mississippi. Died : September 05, 1994 in Chicago, Illinois. American blues…
- September 18, 2025Emily Remler (September 18, 1957 – May 4, 1990 Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) was an American jazz guitarist, active from…
- September 17, 2025Kenneth Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001 La Junta, CO) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural…
- September 17, 2025Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman (17 September 1930 – 22 April 2013) was an Indian Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer. He is…
- September 17, 2025Hiram "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. An early pioneer…
- September 17, 2025Eugene McDuffy (September 17, 1926 – January 23, 2001 Champaign, Ill), known professionally as "Brother" Jack McDuff or "Captain" Jack…
- September 16, 2025Joseph Ronald Drew (16 September 1934 – 16 August 2008) was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor who had…
- September 16, 2025Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti (September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist. Considered…
- September 16, 2025Hildegard of Bingen OSB (German: Hildegard von Bingen, pronounced [ˈhɪldəɡaʁt fɔnˈbɪŋən]; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; c. 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known…
- September 16, 2025Earl Klugh (born September 16, 1953 Detroit) is an American acoustic guitaristand composer. He has won one Grammy Award and…
- September 16, 2025Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999 Suffolk, Virginia) was an American jazzguitarist. Byrd was best known…
- September 16, 2025Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015 Itta Bena, Mississippi), known professionally as B. B. King, was an…
- September 15, 2025Erasmus Widmann (1572–1634) was a South German composer. Widmann was born at Schwäbisch Hall, and studied in Tübingen. His first…
- September 15, 2025Arvell Shaw (September 15, 1923 – December 5, 2002) was an American jazzdouble-bassist, best known for his work with Louis…
- September 15, 2025Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop…
- September 14, 2025Giorgos Papasideris (Greek: Γιώργος Παπασιδέρης 14 September 1902 – 8 October 1977) was a Greek singer, composer, and lyricist. He…
- September 14, 2025Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known…
- September 14, 2025Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and businesswoman. She was…
- September 14, 2025Israel López Valdés (September 14, 1918 – March 22, 2008), better known as Cachao (/kəˈtʃaʊ/ kə-CHOW), was a Cuban double…
- September 13, 2025Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and…
- September 13, 2025Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999 Chicago), nicknamed "the Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer,…
- September 13, 2025William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996 Rosine, Kentucky) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter who…
- September 12, 2025Neil Ellwood Peart (September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) was a Canadian and American musician and author, known as…
- September 12, 2025Maria Muldaur (born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato; September 12, 1942 NY) is an American folkand blues singer who was…