Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 - March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined Miles ...more »
Herbert Jeffrey Hanc*ck (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer, and actor. Hanc*ck started his career with Donald Byrd. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role ...more »
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a leader ...more »
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell CC (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell ...more »
James Robert Belden (October 31, 1956 – May 20, 2015) 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 ...more »
Self - Musician, Record Producer, President Of Blue Note Records
Don Edward Fagenson (born September 13, 1952), known as Don Was, is an American musician, record producer and record executive. Primarily a bass player, Was co-founded the funk-rock band Was (Not Was). In later years he produced songs and albums for many ...more »
Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán (born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the rock band Santana. Born and raised in Mexico where he developed his musical background, he rose to fame in the late 1960s and early ...more »
Neil deGrasse Tyson (American English: , British English, Australian English, New Zealand English, Indian English: ; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator.
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