Dudu Pukwana
Dudu Pukwana (1938-1990) was a saxophonist, composer and occasional pianist, born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, into a musical family....
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Jan Garbarek
Czesław Garbarek was a Polish soldier during World War II, captured by the Germans and held in a labour camp...
Karel Velebný
Czech multi-instrumentalist Karel Velebný (1931-1989) was a tremendously influential figure on the jazz scene in Czechoslovakia, who died just a...
Sadao Watanabe
Saxophonist and flautist Sadao Watanabe (1933) has been a figurehead for Japanese jazz for around seven decades. He was born...
Barbara Thompson
Composer/saxophonist Barbara Thompson (born 1944) is one of the most influential performers and bandleaders in European jazz. Born in Oxford,...
Paquito D’Rivera
Saxophonist and clarinettist Paquito D'Rivera (born 1948) has worked in classical, jazz and latin settings with equal facility. He has...
Don Burrows
Don Burrows (1928-2012) was an extremely influential mainstream saxophonist/clarinettist/flautist, whose long professional career spanned six decades. He was born in...
Carlos Garnett
Carlos Garnett (born 1938) was born in Red Tank, a town in the Panama Canal Zone, that was abandoned while...
Mzee Bango
Joseph Ngala (born in 1935), known professionally as Mzee Bango, is a singer, saxophonist and composer, credited with the invention...
