Bill Dixon (October 5, 1925 – June 16, 2010) was an American musician, composer, visual artist, and educator. Dixon was one of the seminal f...

Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican and American musician. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s wit...

Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr., May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. A...

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered one of the giants of Amer...

Eddie South (Louisiana, Missouri, November 27, 1904 – April 25, 1962) was an American jazz violinist. South was a classical violin prodigy ...