American avant-garde musicians

American musician (1940–1993)

Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)

American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)

American jazz saxophonist (1926–1967)

American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)

American film composer (1929–2004)

American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer (1930–2015)

American guitarist

American artist and musician (born 1947)

American jazz/classical pianist and composer (born 1945)

American composer (born 1936)

American musician and painter (1941-2010)

American composer, saxophonist and bandleader

American musician (1923-2000)

American jazz composer and bandleader (1914–1993)

American composer, music theorist, creator of musical instruments

American singer

American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900–1959)

American composer and musician (born 1935)

American jazz saxophonist (1940–2022)

American avant-garde composer (born 1935)

American jazz musician (1928–1964)

American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (1920–2013)

American rock musician

American jazz musician

American composer (1929-2022)

American jazz saxophonist (1936–1970)

American jazz trumpeter (1936–1995)

American singer-songwriter

American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer (1942–2025)

American musician and record producer

American jazz pianist and poet (1929–2018)

American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)

American vibraphonist

American composer and guitarist (1948-2018)

American musician (born 1942)

American jazz guitarist

American musician (1935-1977)

American composer and musician (1922–2019)

American singer, author and actress

Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his prolific work widely drew inspiration from jazz, classical, Native American music which he had become familiar with as a child, and Latin American music. His strongly rhythmic, contrapuntal pieces and arrangements later influenced composers of minimal music, in particular American composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

American mezzo-soprano and composer

American jazz double-bassist

American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)

American jazz musician

American musician (1936–2020)

American composer (1912–1997)

American composer and pianist (1895–2002)

American composer and musician (1932–2016)

American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer (1931-2011)

American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945)

American musician

American jazz musician (1934–2004)

American composer (1917-2003)

American jazz pianist and composer (1919–1978)

American musician (born 1955)

American jazz pianist and composer (1931-2007)

American jazz drummer (1936–2001)

American pianist and composer (born 1956)