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| Abels, Michael (b. 1962) | composer |
| Abrams, Muhal Richard Louis (b. 1930) | piano, composer |
| Adams, Alton Augustus (b. 1889 d. 1987) | bandmaster, composer |
| Adams, Leslie (b. 1932) | cast, piano |
| Adderley, Nat [Nathaniel] (b. 1931) | cast, composer |
| Anderson, Thomas Jefferson (b. 1928) | composer |
| Anderson, Walter Franklin (b. 1915) | college professor |
| Archibald, Daryl (a. 1991) | composer |
| Arnold-Strothotte, Maurice (b. 1865 d. 1937) | music director, piano |
| Atkins, Russell (b. 1926) | poet, writer |
| Austin, Lovie (b. 1897 d. 1972) | piano |
| Bailey, Mable (b. 1939) | composer |
| Baiocchi, Regina A. Harris (b. 1956) | composer |
| Baker, David Nathaniel (b. 1931) | bassoon, composer |
| Ballard, Louis Wayne (b. 1931) | composer, music educator |
| Banfield, William C. (a. 1991) | composer |
| Barnett, Willis L. (a. 1982) | composer |
| Basie, [William] (b. 1904 d. 1984) | bandleader, composer |
| Bateman, Charles | composer |
| Batiste, Alvin (b. 1932) | clarinet, composer |
| Beckon, Lettie Marie (b. 1953) | composer, piano |
| Belaka, O'Sai Tutu (b. 1933) | composer |
| Billups, Kenneth Browne (b. 1918 d. 1985) | music educator, choir conductor |
| Bland, Ed [Edward Osmund] (b. 1946 a. 1989) | composer, music director |
| Bledsoe, Jules (b. 1898 d. 1943) | cast, singer |
| Boatner, Edward Hammond (b. 1898 d. 1981) | composer |
| Bond, Curtis Horace (b. 1954) | composer |
| Bonds, Margaret (Allison) (b. 1913 d. 1972) | composer, piano |
| Bozeman, Ray (a. 1991) | composer |
| Braxton, Walter Augustus (b. 1952) | composer |
| Bridgewater, Cecil (Vernon) (b. 1942) | trumpeter, arranger |
| Brinsman, Heskel (b. 1923) | composer |
| Brouwer, Leo [Juan Leovigildo] (b. 1939) | composer, direttore d'orchestre |
| Brown, Ray [Raymond Matthew] (b. 1926) | composer |
| Brown, Tanya | composer |
| Brown, Uzee (b. 1951) | bass-baritone, bass |
| Burleigh, Henry Thacker (b. 1866 d. 1949) | composer, singer |
| Burrs, Leslie S. (b. 1952) | flute, music educator |
| Capers, Valerie Gail (b. 1937) | piano, music educator |
| Carter, Benny (b. 1907) | alto saxophone, clarinet |
| Carter, John (b. 1937) | composer |
| Carter, Warrick (b. 1942) | arranger, composer |
| Cheatham, Wallace McClain (b. 1945) | organ, composer |
| Clark, Edgar Rogie (b. 1917 d. 1978) | singer, composer |
| Coleman, Ornette (b. 1930) | alto saxophone, drums |
| Coltrane, John (William) (b. 1926 d. 1967) | alto sax, soprano sax |
| Cook, Doc (b. 1891 d. 1958) | piano, arranger |
| Cook, Will Marion (b. 1869 d. 1944) | composer, director |
| Cooper, Charlene Moore (a. 1984) | composer |
| Cooper, William Benjamin (b. 1920 d. 1993) | organ, composer |
| Cunningham, Arthur H. (b. 1928) | composer |
| Curtis, Marvin V. (b. 1951) | composer, teacher |
| Da Costa, Noel George (b. 1929) | composer, violin |
| Davis, Anthony (b. 1951) | piano, trumpet |
| Davis, Miles (Dewey) (b. 1926 d. 1991) | piano, tromba |
| Davis, Nathan (b. 1937) | composer, soprano sax |
| Dawson, William Levi (b. 1899 d. 1990) | composer, conductor |
| Dede, Edmund (b. 1827 d. 1903 a. 1862) | violin, clarinet |
| Dennis, Mark Andrew (b. 1949) | composer |
| Dett, Robert Nathaniel (Farbiger) (b. 1882 d. 1943) | composer, teacher |
| Dickerson, Roger Donald (b. 1934) | composer |
| Dill, William Leslie (b. 1913) | bandleader, composer |
| Dillard, Donald E. (b. 1940) | composer |
| Diton, Carl Rossini (b. 1886 d. 1962) | piano, composer |
| Dorsey, James Elmo (b. 1905) | baritone, composer |
| Drew, James Mulcro (b. 1929) | composer, playwright |
| Duncan, John (b. 1913 d. 1975) | composer, college professor |
| Dunner, Leslie Byron (b. 1956) | conductor, composer |
| Durham, Eddie (b. 1906 d. 1987) | arranger, Lbgarr~ |
| Edwards, Leo (b. 1937) | composer |
| Elie, Justin (b. 1883 d. 1931) | conductor, composer |
| Ellington (b. 1899 d. 1974) | composer, direttore d'orchestra |
| Eubanks, Rachel Amelia (b. 1922) | composer, administrator |
| Europe, James Reese (b. 1881 d. 1919) | bandmaster, composer |
| Fax, Mark Oakland (b. 1911 d. 1974) | college professor, composer |
| Fischer, William Samuel (b. 1935) | arranger, composer |
| Flack, Roberta (b. 1937) | singer, vocals |
| Fletcher, John (a. 1973) | composer |
| Foster, Frank (Benjamin III) (b. 1928) | tenor sax, arranger |
| Foster, William Patrick (b. 1919) | conductor, bandmaster |
| Fountain, Primous (b. 1949) | composer |
| Fox, Donal Leonellis (b. 1952) | composer |
| Fox, Frederick Alfred (b. 1931) | composer, lighting designer |
| Fox, James Ingram (b. 1916) | composer |
| Freeman, Ahnee Sharon (a. 1985) | composer |
| Freeman, Harry Lawrence (b. 1869 d. 1954) | composer, conductor |
| Furman, James (b. 1937 d. 1989) | composer, music educator |
| Garner, Erroll (Louis) (b. 1921 d. 1977) | musicista, piano |
| Gillespie, Dizzy [John Birks] (b. 1917) | tromba, trumpet |
| Golson, Benny (b. 1929) | conductor, piano |
| Goodwin, Anna Gardner (b. 1874 d. 1959) | composer |
| Greene, Diana R. (a. 1978) | composer |
| Gregory, Byron | composer |
| Grider, Joseph William (a. 1986) | composer |
| Hagan, Helen Eugenia (b. 1893 d. 1964 a. 1912) | organ, piano |
| Hailstork, Adolphus Cunningham (b. 1941) | composer, conductor |
| Hairston, Jacqueline Butler (b. 1938) | composer, arranger |
| Hakim, Talib Rasul (b. 1940 d. 1988) | composer |
| Hampton, Ralph (a. 1975) | composer |
| Hampton, Slide [Locksley Wellington] (b. 1932) | trombone, arranger |
| Hancock, Eugene Wilson (White) (b. 1929 d. 1994) | music educator, organ |
| Hancock, Herbie [Herbert Jeffrey] (b. 1940) | piano, arranger |
| Handy, John (Richard) (b. 1933) | alto saxophone, teacher |
| Handy, W.C. [William Christopher] (b. 1873 d. 1958) | additional Music, cast |
| Harris, Eddie (b. 1934) | tenor saxophone, trumpet |
| Harris, Howard C. (b. 1940) | conductor, arranger |
| Harris, Margaret Rosezarian (b. 1943) | piano, conductor |
| Harris, Robert Allen (b. 1938) | piano, music educator |
| Harrison, Charles A. (b. 1966) | composer |
| Hayes, Joseph C. (b. 1920) | composer, music educator |
| Hayes, Lawrence M. (b. 1921~) | composer |
| Heard, Henry A. (a. 1986) | composer |
| Heath, Jimmy [James Edward] (b. 1926) | alto sax, sax |
| Henderson, Fletcher [James Fletcher] (b. 1898 d. 1952) | arranger, bandleader |
| Henderson, Rick (b. 1928) | alto saxophone, saxophone |
| Henderson, William H. | composer |
| Herbison, Jeraldine Saunders (b. 1941) | violin, music educator |
| Hildreth, Richard E. (b. 1867 d. 1941) | arranger, composer |
| Hill, Andrew (b. 1937) | keyboard, piano |
| Hilliard, Quincy Charles (b. 1954) | composer, clinician |
| Holiday, Billie (b. 1915 d. 1959) | musicisti, singer |
| Holmes, Robert (b. 1934) | composer |
| Holt, Nora Douglas (b. 1885 d. 1974) | journalist, critic |
| Jackson, Calvin (b. 1919 d. 1985) | arranger, piano |
| Jeffers, Jack (b. 1928) | composer |
| Jenkins, Edmund Thornton (b. 1894 d. 1926) | composer, reeds |
| Jenkins, Leroy (b. 1932) | violin, composer |
| Johnson, Bessie Viola (b. 1880) | composer |
| Johnson, Conrad (b. 1915) | alto saxophone, composer |
| Johnson, Frank (b. 1792 d. 1844) | clarinet, composer |
| Johnson, Hall (b. 1888 d. 1970) | choir, choral director |
| Johnson, J. Rosamond [John Rosamund] (b. 1873 d. 1954) | composer, singer |
| Johnson, J.J. (b. 1924 a. 1988) | jazz trombone, trombone |
| Johnson, James P. [James Price] (b. 1891 d. 1955) | cast, composer |
| Jones, Charles (a. 1973) | composer |
| Jones, Quincy (Delight) (b. 1933) | arranger, composer |
| Jones, Thad (b. 1923 d. 1986) | cornet, trumpet |
| Joplin, Scott (b. 1868 d. 1917) | composer, librettist |
| Joseph, Reginald Anthony (b. 1963) | composer |
| Kay, Ulysses (Simpson) (b. 1917 d. 1995) | composer |
| Kelley, Anthony M. (b. 1965) | composer |
| Kennedy, Joseph J. (b. 1923) | violin, composer |
| Kerr, Thomas Henderson (b. 1915 d. 1988) | college professor, composer |
| King, Betty Jackson [Betty Lou] (b. 1928 d. 1994) | music educator, composer |
| Kynaston, Trent (b. 1946) | saxophone, composer |
| La Motta, Bill (b. 1919) | composer |
| Lambert, Lucien Leon Guillaume (b. 1858 d. 1945) | composer, piano |
| Lampley, Calvin Douglas (b. 1924 a. 1982) | composer |
| Lateef, Yusef (b. 1920) | flute, tenor saxophone |
| Lee, Benjamin (a. 1989) | composer |
| Lee, Consuela (b. 1926) | composer |
| Leon, Tania Justina (b. 1943 a. 1967) | composer, conductor |
| Lewis, John (Aaron) (b. 1920) | arranger, composer |
| Logan, Wendell (Morris) (b. 1940) | composer, music educator |
| Lovinggood, Penman (b. 1895) | writer, singer |
| Margetson, Edward Henry (b. 1891 d. 1962) | composer |
| Marsalis, Wynton (b. 1961) | trumpet |
| McCall, Maurice Henderson (b. 1943) | composer, music educator |
| McCreary, Ricard Deming (b. 1946) | composer |
| McDaniel, William Foster (b. 1940) | arranger, composer |
| McDonald, Kenneth | composer |
| McLean, Hamilton Gordon (b. 1906) | composer, lyricist |
| McLin, Edward M. (b. 1928) | composer |
| McLin, Lena Johnson (b. 1928) | music educator, choir conductor |
| Mells, Herbert Franklin (b. 1909 d. 1956) | music educator, composer |
| Merrifield, Norman Lavelle (b. 1906) | composer, arranger |
| Miller, Lester (a. 1986) | composer |
| Mingus, Charles (b. 1922 d. 1979) | bass (instrument), bass |
| Minor, Everett W. (a. 1965) | arranger, composer |
| Mitchell, Roscoe (Edward) (b. 1940) | reeds, saxophone |
| Mitchell Baba, J.R. Phumelela (a. 1991) | composer |
| Monk, Thelonious (Sphere) (b. 1917 d. 1982) | piano, pianoforte |
| Moore, Carman Leroy (b. 1936) | composer, writer |
| Moore, Dorothy Rudd (b. 1940) | composer, soprano |
| Moore, Kermit Diton (b. 1929) | cello, arranger |
| Moore, Undine Smith (b. 1905 d. 1989) | composer, music educator |
| Morgan, William Astor (b. 1890) | composer, teacher of piano and theory |
| Morris, Robert L. | composer |
| Morton, Jelly Roll (b. 1885 d. 1941) | composer, music based on |
| Mosley, J. Orville B. (b. 1909) | composer |
| Muhammad, Abdulhakim (a. 1974) | composer |
| Mumford, Jeffrey (b. 1955) | composer |
| Muse, Clarence (b. 1889 d. 1979) | actor, composer |
| Nash, Gary Powell (b. 1964) | composer |
| Nelson, Kalvert Jalalu (b. 1951) | composer |
| Nelson, Oliver (Edward) (b. 1932 d. 1975) | composer, arranger |
| Norman, Ruth (b. 1927) | concert pianist, lecturer |
| Oliver, Sy [Melvin James] (b. 1910 d. 1988) | arranger, trumpeter |
| Osterman, Eurydice V. (b. 1950) | composer |
| Parker, Charlie [Charles Christopher] (b. 1920 d. 1955) | alto saxophone |
| Parks, Gordon Alexander (b. 1912) | film producer, composer |
| Paschal, Cornell | composer |
| Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor (b. 1932) | composer, dance arranger |
| Perry, Julia (Amanda) (b. 1924 d. 1979) | composer, conductor |
| Perry, Zenobia Powell (b. 1914) | piano, composer |
| Peterson, Hannibal (Marvin) [Marvin (Charles)] (b. 1948) | trumpeter, composer |
| Peterson, Oscar (Emmanuel) (b. 1925) | piano, pianoforte |
| Price, Florence Beatrice (b. 1888 d. 1953) | composer, arranger |
| Price, John Elwood (b. 1935) | composer, piano |
| Providence, Edford (a. 1990) | composer |
| Qamar, Nadi Abu (b. 1917) | composer |
| Rainey, Ma (b. 1886 d. 1939) | blues singer, composer |
| Redman, Don [Donald Mathew] (b. 1900 d. 1964) | alto saxophone, arranger |
| Rison, Reginald R. (a. 1963) | composer |
| Rivers, Clarence Joseph (b. 1931) | composer of sacred music, priest |
| Roberts, Luckey (b. 1887 d. 1968) | piano, composer |
| Rollins, Sonny (b. 1930) | tenor saxophone |
| Roumain, Daniel B. (a. 1993) | composer |
| Ruff, Willie [Henry, jr.] (b. 1931) | double bass, french horn |
| Russell, George (Allan) (b. 1923) | composer, theorist |
| Ryder, Noah Francis (b. 1914 d. 1964) | music educator, conductor |
| Santos, Henry Jose (b. 1927) | composer |
| Schuyler, Philippa Duke (b. 1932 d. 1967) | piano, composer |
| Scott, Kevin (b. 1956) | composer |
| Silver, Horace (b. 1928) | jazz piano, piano |
| Simmons, Margo Nelleen (b. 1952) | composer |
| Singleton, Alvin (Elliot) (b. 1940) | composer |
| Smith, Brian W. | composer |
| Smith, Hale (b. 1925) | composer, arranger |
| Smith, Irene Britton (a. 1943) | composer |
| Smith, Leo (b. 1941) | trumpeter, composer |
| Smith, Nathaniel Clark (b. 1877 d. 1933) | conductor, music educator |
| Smith, William D. (a. 1901) | composer |
| Snaer, Samuel (b. 1832 d. 1896) | composer |
| Soley, David (b. 1962) | composer |
| Solomon, Joyce Elaine (b. 1946) | music educator, piano |
| Southall, Mitchell Bernard (b. 1922 d. 1989) | composer, arranger |
| Stewart, Earl Lewis (b. 1950) | composer |
| Still, William Grant (b. 1895 d. 1978) | arranger, composer |
| Stokes, Harvey Jeffery (b. 1937 a. 1988) | composer |
| Strayhorn, Billy [William] (b. 1915 d. 1967) | composer, lyricist |
| Swanson, Howard (b. 1907 d. 1978) | composer |
| Taylor, Billy [William Edward] (b. 1921) | piano, music educator |
| Taylor, Stephen James (a. 1980) | composer |
| Tillis, Frederick Charles (b. 1930) | composer, administrator |
| Tyers, William H. (b. 1876 d. 1924) | composer, ragtime composer |
| Tyler, Robert (a. 1990) | composer |
| Valentine, Alexander Mark (b. 1895) | bandmaster, teacher |
| Wade, Marcus (a. 1986) | composer |
| Walker, Charles (b. 1922 d. 1975 a. 1968) | composer |
| Walker, George Theophilius (b. 1922) | banjo, composer |
| Waller, Fats [Thomas Wright] (b. 1904 d. 1943) | cast, composer |
| Watkins, Mary (b. 1939) | composer |
| Weston, Trevor (a. 1988) | composer |
| White, Andrew Nathaniel (b. 1942) | saxophone, composer |
| White, Clarence Cameron (b. 1880 d. 1960) | composer, violin |
| White, Dolores (a. 1974) | composer |
| White, Joseph (b. 1838 d. 1890) | composer |
| Wiggins, Arthur Montague (b. 1920) | composer, songwriter |
| Wilkins, Ernie [Ernest Brooks] (b. 1922) | alto saxophone, composer |
| Williams, James Lafayette (b. 1950) | bassist, guitar |
| Williams, Julius Penson (b. 1954) | composer, conductor |
| Williams, Mary Lou (b. 1910 d. 1981) | arranger, cast |
| Wilson, Gerald (Stanley) (b. 1918) | composer, lyricist |
| Wilson, Olly (Woodrow) (b. 1937) | composer, trombone |
| Woods, Michael E. (b. 1952) | composer |
| Work, Frederick Jerome (b. 1880 d. 1942) | composer, scholar |
| Work, John Wesley (b. 1901 d. 1967) | composer, scholar |
| Work, Julian C. (b. 1910) | arranger, composer |
| Wyatt, Lucius Reynolds (b. 1938) | music educator, trumpeter |
| Young, Kevin (b. 1966) | composer |
| Young, Lester (Willis) (b. 1909 d. 1959) | cornet, guitar |