- Michael Abels , USA (born 1962)
- Muhal Richard Abrams , USA (born 1930)
- Leslie Adams , USA (born 1932)
- Eleanor Alberga , Jamaica (born 1949)
- Thomas Jefferson Anderson (TJ), USA (born 1928)
- William Banfield , USA (born 1961)
- David Baker , USA (born 1931)
- Fela Anikulapo Kuti , Nigeria (born 1938)
- Eubie Blake , USA (1883 - 1983)
- Anthony Braxton , USA (born 1945)
- Harry Burleigh , USA (1866-1949)
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor , England (1875 - 1912)
- Roque Cordero , Panama (born 1917)
- Arthur Cunningham , USA (born 1928)
- William L. Dawson , USA (1899 - 1990)
- Anthony Davis , USA (born 1951)
- Robert Nathaniel Dett , Canada (1882 - 1943)
- Julius Eastman , USA (1940 - 1990)
- Edward Kennedy Ellington ( Duke Ellington ), USA (1899 - 1974), Jazz big band leader
- James Reese Europe , USA (1881 - 1919)
- Donal Fox , USA (born 1952)
- Adolphus Hailstork , USA (born 1941)
- William Christopher Handy ( W.C. Handy ), (1873 - 1958), USA Blues
- Talib Rasul Hakim , (1940 - 1988)
- Fletcher Henderson , USA (1897 - 1952), Jazz big band leader
- Jonathan Holland
- Tony Jackson , (1876 - 1921), pianist
- Leroy Jenkins , USA (born 1932)
- Hall Johnson , USA (1888 - 1970)
- Scott Joplin , USA (1868 - 1917)
- Ulysses Kay , USA (1917 - 1995)
- Wynton Marsalis (born 1961)
- Roscoe Mitchell , USA (born 1940)
- Thelonious Monk , USA (1917 - 1982)
- Undine Smith Moore , USA (1905 - 1989)
- Jeffrey Mumford , USA (born 1955)
- Jose Nunes-Garcia , Brazil (1767 - 1830)
- Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson , USA (1932-2004)
- Walter Robinson , (b.1952)
- Chevalier De Saint-Georges (c.1739 - 1799)
- Alvin Singleton , (born 1940)
- Hale Smith , USA (born 1925)
- William Grant Still , USA (1895 - 1978)
- Howard Swanson , USA (1907 - 1978)
- George Walker , USA (born 1922)
- Fats Waller , USA (1904 - 1943), singer, Jazz musician
- Joseph White , Cuba (1835 - 1918)
- Thomas Wiggins (Bethune) or Blind Tom , (1849 - 1908)
- Clarence Williams , USA (1893 - 1965), publisher, Jazz musician
- Olly Wilson , USA (born 1937)
- John Wesley Work III, USA (1901 - 1967)
- Stevie Wonder , (born 1950)
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