Avant-garde jazz percussionists

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

American musician (1935-1977)

Cuban musician (1917–2003)

American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)

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

German musician (1938-2017)

American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican ancestry (1929–2006)

British musician (1942–2025)

Turkish musician of Armenian ancestry (born 1957)

American jazz drummer (1940–2013)

American musician

American musician (1949–2018)

Danish avant-garde jazz guitarist, bandleader and composer

Dutch musician (born 1942)

Swiss jazz drummer and percussionist

American musician

French musician

Hungarian percussionist, arranger, bandleader, and composer

American composer and multi-instrumentalist

American jazz drummer

American jazz drummer

American jazz drummer

American percussionist

Norwegian percussionist and businessman

American tenor saxophonist (1931–1995)

American musician

American musician