Toshiko Akiyoshi is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.
Emily Remler was an American jazz guitarist, active from the late 1970s until her death in 1990.
Cindy Blackman Santana, sometimes known as Cindy Blackman, is an American jazz and rock drummer. Blackman has recorded several jazz albums as a bandleader and has performed with Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Simmons, Ron Carter, Sam Rivers, Cassandra Wilson, Angela Bofill, Buckethead, Bill Laswell, Lenny Kravitz, Joe Henderson and Joss Stone.
Donald Harrison Jr. is an African-American jazz saxophonist and the Big Chief of The Congo Square Nation Afro-New Orleans Cultural Group from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Undercurrent is a 1962 jazz album by pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Jim Hall. The two artists collaborated again in 1966 on the album Intermodulation.
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah is an American jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer.
Satoko Fujii is a Japanese avant-garde jazz pianist, accordionist and composer.
Flyin' the Koop is the second solo album by New Orleans drummer Stanton Moore. The album includes funk, rock and jazz. Moore's line-up for Flyin' the Koop is in part a combination of musicians with whom he played at a "SuperJam" at Tipitina's during Jazz Fest 2000.
Ledisi Anibade Young, better known simply as Ledisi, is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, author, and actress. Her name means "to bring forth" or "to come here" in Yoruba.
Christopher Carson Cheek is an American jazz saxophonist.
Esperanza Emily Spalding is an American bassist, singer, songwriter, and composer. Her accolades include five Grammy Awards, a Boston Music Award, a Soul Train Music Award, and two honorary doctorates: one from her alma mater Berklee College of Music and one from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
Tia Fuller is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator, and a member of the all-female band touring with Beyoncé. Fuller is currently a faculty member in the ensembles department at Berklee College of Music. Fuller was a Featured Jazz Musician in Pixar's animated film Soul. For the film Fuller plays an alto saxophone with a Vandoren mouthpiece for the character Dorothea Williams. The appearance of Dorothea Williams is influenced by Fuller, and the character's speaking lines are voiced by Angela Bassett.
Kate Schutt is an American singer and songwriter who has released two albums No Love Lost and The Telephone Game.
The Two O'Clock Lab Band is the second highest level of nine big bands of the Jazz Studies Division at the University of North Texas College of Music, a comprehensive music school with the largest enrollment of any music institution accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, and oldest in the world offering a degree in jazz studies.
Sheryl Bailey is an American jazz guitarist and educator. She teaches guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Grace Kelly is an American jazz musician, composer, and arranger. Kelly has produced and released recordings of her own, scored soundtracks, and tours with her band. She was named one of Glamour magazine's Top 10 College Women in 2011; and she has been featured on CNN.com and on the NPR radio shows Piano Jazz with both Marian McPartland and Jon Weber, as well as on WBGO's JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater.
Yesterday You Said Tomorrow is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Christian Scott. Concord Music Group released the album on February 1, 2010, in the UK and on March 30, 2010, in the US.
Ranky Tanky is an American musical ensemble based in Charleston, South Carolina. It specializes in jazz-influenced arrangements of traditional Gullah music, a culture that originated among descendants of enslaved Africans in the Lowcountry region of the US Southeast. Apart from lead vocalist Quiana Parler, four of the group's members, Quentin Baxter, Kevin Hamilton, Clay Ross, and Charlton Singleton, previously played together in the Charleston jazz quartet The Gradual Lean in the late 1990s.
Music for the New Millennium is a two-CD album by drummer Cindy Blackman. It was recorded at The Music Palace Studio in West Hempstead, New York, and was released in 2004 by Sacred Sound Records. On the album, Blackman is joined by saxophonist J. D. Allen, keyboardist Carlton Holmes, and bassist George Mitchell. The album is dedicated to the memory of Blackman's grandmother Martha Blackman-Higby.
Brian Seeger is a guitarist, composer, producer, recording engineer, bandleader and educator. He was appointed Coca-Cola Endowed Chair in American Jazz Studies at the University of New Orleans in 2023.
