Category
page 1Avant-garde jazz percussionists
Jack DeJohnette
American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer (1942–2025)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
American musician (1935-1977)
Mongo Santamaría
Cuban musician (1917–2003)
Lester Bowie
American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)
Paul Motian
American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer (1931-2011)
Jaki Liebezeit
German musician (1938-2017)
Ray Barretto
American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican ancestry (1929–2006)
Jamie Muir
British musician (1942–2025)
Arto Tunçboyacıyan
Turkish musician of Armenian ancestry (born 1957)
Ronald Shannon Jackson
American jazz drummer (1940–2013)
Susie Ibarra
American musician
Jerry Gonzalez
American musician (1949–2018)

Pierre Dørge
Danish avant-garde jazz guitarist, bandleader and composer
Han Bennink
Dutch musician (born 1942)

Pierre Favre
Swiss jazz drummer and percussionist

Hamid Drake
American musician
André Ceccarelli
French musician
Tommy Vig
Hungarian percussionist, arranger, bandleader, and composer
Tyshawn Sorey
American composer and multi-instrumentalist
Pheeroan akLaff
American jazz drummer
Jim Black
American jazz drummer
Billy Martin
American jazz drummer
Don Moye
American percussionist
Ingar Zach
Norwegian percussionist and businessman

John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist (1931–1995)
Kenny Wollesen
American musician
Kahil El'Zabar
American musician