Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
Roscoe Mitchell is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist". The Penguin Guide to Jazz described him as "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz; All About Jazz states that he has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past 35 years. Critic Jon Pareles in The New York Times has mentioned that Mitchell "qualifies as an iconoclast". In addition to his own work as a bandleader, Mitchell is known for cofounding the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).
Barb Jungr is an English singer and songwriter, who has recorded versions of songs by Bob Dylan, Sting, Elvis Presley, and Leonard Cohen.
Robert Andre Glasper is an American pianist and record producer. He has been nominated for seven Grammy Awards and has won three Grammys and one Emmy Award. His 2012 album Black Radio won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 55th Grammy Awards. His 2014 album Black Radio 2 was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 56th Grammy Awards. The song "These Walls", on which Glasper plays keys, from Kendrick Lamar's album To Pimp A Butterfly won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 57th Grammy Awards. The soundtrack for the film Miles Ahead, for which Glasper was a producer, won Best Soundtrack Compilation at the 58th Grammy Awards. The song "Letter to the Free", written with Common for the Ava DuVernay documentary 13th, won the 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.
Kim Pensyl is an American pop-jazz and new-age music keyboardist. He attended Ohio State University, and the University of California, Northridge for graduate school and had several CDs produced by Shanachie Records. He has worked in bands with Al Hirt, Don Ellis, Hubert Laws, Gerald Wilson, and Guy Lombardo. He is currently part of the Jazz Studies Department faculty at the College-Conservatory of Music.
Mika Pohjola (pronunciation is a Finnish-born jazz pianist and composer who resides in New York City. He is one of the most prolific Scandinavian jazz musicians in his generation.
Inner Urge is an album by jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson released in 1966, the fourth recorded as a leader for Blue Note Records. It was recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on November 30, 1964. It features Henderson playing tenor sax, along with pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones. The album's bass player, Bob Cranshaw, was a regular member of Sonny Rollins' band at the time of the recording, and was also a frequent session musician for record labels including Blue Note, Prestige and Atlantic.
James Robert Belden was an American saxophonist, arranger, composer, bandleader, and producer. As a composer he may be best known for his Grammy Award winning orchestral jazz recording, Black Dahlia (2001). As producer he is mostly associated with the remastering of seminal recordings by trumpeter Miles Davis for Columbia Records.
Peter Calandra is a New York City based composer and pianist. He is most well known for his work composing music for film and television as well as conducting and playing piano in Broadway and Off Broadway productions. He holds a Master's Degree in Music Composition from Queens College, City University of New York.
Byard Lancaster was an avant-garde jazz saxophonist and flutist.
Calvin "Cal" Massey was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
Nicholas Urie is an American composer of jazz and classical music. Urie teaches arranging at the Berklee College of Music.
Phillip Johnston is an American avant-garde saxophonist. He came to prominence in the 1980s as co-founder of The Microscopic Septet and went on to write extensively for films, particularly new scores for classic silent films from the early 20th Century.
Riccardo Zegna is an Italian jazz musician.
Kate Schutt is an American singer and songwriter who has released two albums No Love Lost and The Telephone Game.
Jessica Arellano, better known by her stage name Jessy J, is an American musician in the Smooth jazz music genre.
Kenneth David Hatfield is an American jazz guitarist, who is also a composer, arranger, producer, and educator.
Anthony Branker is an American musician and educator of Caribbean descent.
John Blum is an American jazz pianist and composer.
Annie Booth (US) is an American jazz pianist and educator. Since the age of 16, she studied with jazz organist Pat Bianchi, pianistJeff Jenkins and Art Lande. She studied at the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts and went on to earn a BM in Jazz Studies from the Thompson Jazz Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011.
