Category
page 1Avant-garde jazz pianists
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader (1922–1979)

Keith Jarrett
American jazz/classical pianist and composer (born 1945)
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader

Sun Ra
American jazz composer and bandleader (1914–1993)
Yusef Lateef
American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (1920–2013)

Archie Shepp
American jazz musician
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet (1929–2018)
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter (1936–1995)
Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist (1932-2016)
Jaki Liebezeit
German musician (1938-2017)
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945)
Lennie Tristano
American jazz pianist and composer (1919–1978)
Andrew Hill
American jazz pianist and composer (1931-2007)
Uri Caine
American pianist and composer (born 1956)

Jason Moran
American jazz pianist, composer, educator (born 1975)
Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer (1925–2002)
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer (1923-2011)
Bill Dixon
American composer and educator (1925–2010)
Misha Mengelberg
Dutch jazz pianist and composer (1935–2017)
Iiro Rantala
Finnish jazz pianist, composer and entertainer
Don Pullen
American jazz pianist and organist (1941-1995)

Keith Tippett
British jazz pianist and composer (1947–2020)

Kurt Rosenwinkel
American jazz guitarist and keyboardist
Joachim Kühn
German jazz pianist
Alexander von Schlippenbach
German jazz pianist and composer
Irène Schweizer
Swiss jazz pianist (1941–2024)
Burton Greene
American musician (1937-2021)
John Medeski
American jazz keyboards player and composer
Amina Claudine Myers
American musician
Matthew Shipp
American pianist, composer, and bandleader
Wayne Horvitz
American musician
Chris McGregor
South African musician
Vyacheslav Ganelin
Soviet-Lithuanian and Israeli improviser, pianist, composer
Mike Westbrook
British pianist
Yaron Herman
Israeli pianist
Marilyn Crispell
American pianist
Gunter Hampel
German jazz musician

Ran Blake
American musician
Marcin Wasilewski
Polish jazz musician
Steve Beresford
English musician
Larry Willis
American jazz pianist and composer (1942–2019)
Giuseppi Logan
American musician (1935-2020)
Stefano Battaglia
Italian musician
Myra Melford
American avant-garde jazz pianist and composer
Walter Norris
American pianist (1931-2011)
Harry Tavitian
Romanian musician
Sylvie Courvoisier
Swiss musician
Craig Taborn
American musician
Arthur Doyle
American musician (1944-2014)
D. D. Jackson
Canadian musician
Dudu Pukwana
South African musician (1938–1990)
Karl Berger
German jazz vibraphonist, pianist and composer (1935–2023)
Paul Plimley
Canadian musician (1953–2022)
Anat Fort
jazz musician
Satoko Fujii
Japanese musician
Håvard Wiik
Norwegian jazz pianist
Tyshawn Sorey
American composer and multi-instrumentalist
Larry Harlow
American musician (1939–2021)

Peter Apfelbaum
American jazz saxophonist and composer
Vladislav Sendecki
Polish musician