Virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist and one of the most important figures in American music.
Charles Mingus
"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." -Charles Mingus
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Kenny Dorham
One of the great trumpet pioneers of the bebop era, many of his compositions have become jazz standards
Chick Corea
An NEA Jazz Master, 16-time GRAMMY winner, prolific composer and undisputed keyboard virtuoso
Paquito D'Rivera
D’Rivera’s catalogue is a dynamic cross-cultural mix of jazz, Latin and classical music
Billie Holiday
Considered by many as the foremost female singer in jazz history
Wynton Marsalis
Marsalis composes across the musical spectrum writing for film, big band, chamber ensemble and symphony orchestra
Clifford Brown
Brown’s artistry helped to usher in the hard-bop movement of the mid '50s
Andrew Hill
Considered a true modernist, Hill’s music is unique in its elasticized rhythms, dissonance and multilayered textures
