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- August 14, 2025David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He first…
- August 14, 2025James Edward Wormworth III (born August 14, 1937, in Utica, New York) is an American jazz drummer. He was described…
- August 14, 2025Edwin James Costa (August 14, 1930 – July 28, 1962) was an American jazz pianist, vibraphonist, composer and arranger. In…
- August 14, 2025Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith (August 14, 1909 – September 25, 1967), better known as Stuff Smith, was an American jazz…
- August 13, 2025Mulgrew Miller (August 13, 1955 – May 29, 2013 Greenwood, Mississippi) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. As…
- August 13, 2025Frank "Son" Seals (August 14, 1942 – December 20, 2004 Osceola, Arkansas) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer.…
- August 13, 2025Robert Henry "Baby Boy" Warren (August 13, 1919 – July 1, 1977), was an American blues singer and guitarist who…
- August 13, 2025"Big Chief" Russell Moore (August 13, 1912 – December 15, 1983) was an American jazz trombonist. Moore, a Pima tribe…
- August 12, 2025Peter Ostroushko (August 12, 1953 – February 24, 2021 Minneapolis) was an American violinist and mandolinist. He performed regularly on…
- August 12, 2025Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British musician. He was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter…
- August 12, 2025Roy James Gaines (August 12, 1937 – August 11, 2021) was an American Texas bluesand electric blues guitarist, singer and…
- August 12, 2025Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He was the leader of the…
- August 11, 2025Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram (born 11 August 1942), also known as Vikku Vinayakram, is an Indian percussionist. He is also known…
- August 11, 2025Michael Fonfara (11 August 1946 – 8 January 2021) was a Canadian keyboardist who was most notable for his work as…
- August 11, 2025Singer, songwriter, and producer, Kenny Gamble, was born on August 11, 1943, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gamble got his start in…
- August 11, 2025Manabendra Mukhopadhyay was an Indian singer and music composer in Bengali films. Coming to limelight in the early 1950s Manabendra…
- August 10, 2025Ian Scott Anderson MBE (born 10 August 1947) is a British musician best known for being the chief vocalist, flautist,…
- August 10, 2025Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (10 August 1860 – 19 September 1936) was an Indian musicologist who wrote the first modern…
- August 10, 2025Charles H. Israels (born August 10, 1936) is an American jazz composer, arranger, and bassist who is best known for…
- August 10, 2025Gertrude E. "Trudy" Pitts (August 10, 1932 – December 19, 2010) was an American soul jazz keyboardist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She…
- August 9, 2025Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, film producer, model, and philanthropist.…
- August 9, 2025Wanda LaFaye Rogers, née Young (August 9, 1943 – December 15, 2021), was an American singer, known for being a…
- August 9, 2025Jack DeJohnette (born August 9, 1942 Chicago) is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. Known for his extensive work…
- August 9, 2025Edward Rudolph "Butch" Warren Jr. (August 9, 1939 – October 5, 2013) was an American jazz bassist who was active…
- August 8, 2025John Renbourn (8 August 1944 – 26 March 2015) was an English guitarist and songwriter. He was best known for…
- August 8, 2025Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green (August 8, 1926 – December 31, 2018 Mobile, AL) was an American jazz trombonist who toured…
- August 8, 2025Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003 Bronx, NY) was an American jazzsaxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger,…
- August 7, 2025Ricardo Baliardo (7 August 1921 – 5 November 2014), better known as Manitas de Plata ("little hands of silver"), was…
- August 7, 2025Bassekou Kouyate (born August 7th 1966) is a musician from Mali. His band is known as Ngoni ba. He was…
- August 7, 2025Rahsaan Roland Kirk (born Ronald Theodore Kirk; August 7, 1935 – December 5, 1977 Columbus, OH), known earlier in his…
- August 7, 2025Morris Holt (August 7, 1937 – February 21, 2013), known as Magic Slim, was an American blues singer and guitarist.…
- August 7, 2025George Abel Van Eps (August 7, 1913 – November 29, 1998) was an American swing and mainstream jazz guitarist. George…
- August 7, 2025Charles Luckyth Roberts (August 7, 1887 – February 5, 1968 Philadelphia), better known as Luckey Roberts, was an American composer…
- August 6, 2025Ravi Coltrane (born August 6, 1965) is an American jazz saxophonist. Co-owner of the record label RKM Music, he has…
- August 6, 2025Regina Carter (born August 6, 1966 Detroit) is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of jazz saxophonist James…
- August 6, 2025Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010 Chicago), known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz…
- August 6, 2025Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014 Shenandoah, Iowa) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader,…
- August 5, 2025Guillaume Du Fay (Dufay, Du Fayt; 5 August 1397 – 27 November 1474) was a composer and music theorist of…
- August 5, 2025Leonard Harold Breau (August 5, 1941 – August 12, 1984) was an American-Canadian guitarist. He blended many styles of music,…
- August 5, 2025Airto Guimorvan Moreira (born August 5, 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer, composer and percussionist. He is married to jazz…
- August 4, 2025Terri Lyne Carrington (born August 4, 1965) is an American jazz drummer, composer, producer, and educator. She has played with…
- August 4, 2025Mitchell Herbert Ellis (August 4, 1921 – March 28, 2010) was an American jazzguitarist. During the 1950s, he was in…
- August 4, 2025Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.…
- August 3, 2025Lucky Philip Dube ( 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. His…
- August 3, 2025Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazzinstrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb –…
- August 3, 2025Hamid Drake (born August 3, 1955) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. By the close of the 1990s, Hamid…
- August 3, 2025Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and…
- August 3, 2025Eddie Jefferson (August 3, 1918 – May 9, 1979) was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as…
- August 2, 2025"Fat" Larry James (August 2, 1949 - December 5, 1987) James died from a heart attack, at the age of…
- August 2, 2025Nicola James Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English singer-songwriter and drummer. His musical career spanned…
- August 2, 2025José Ángel Lamas (August 2, 1775 – December 10, 1814) was a Venezuelan classical musician and composer born in Caracas.…
- August 2, 2025Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist…
- August 1, 2025Thomas Richard Bolin (August 1, 1951 – December 4, 1976) was an American rockguitarist who played with Zephyr (from 1969…
- August 1, 2025Paddy Moloney (Irish: Pádraig Ó Maoldomhnaigh; 1 August 1938 – 12 October 2021) was an Irish musician, composer, and record…
- August 1, 2025Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz; August 1, 1931 NY) is an American folk singer, songwriter and story teller.…
- August 1, 2025Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and a…
- August 1, 2025Alegrías Baile Entrada - Entrance, often performed to a guitar falseta or to the singer’s entrance (salida) ti ri ti tran, tran...…
- July 31, 2025Dafnis Prieto (born July 31, 1974) is a Cuban-American drummer, composer, bandleader, and educator. In his home town of Santa…
- July 31, 2025Stanley Jordan (born July 31, 1959 Chicago) is an American jazz guitarist noted for his playing technique, which involves tapping…