Aaron Neville - American R&B and soul vocalist, musician and actor. He has had four platinum albums and four Top 10 hits in the United States, including three that went to #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. "Tell It Like It Is", from 1966, was #1 on the Soul chart for five weeks.  

Etta James - American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz, and gospel. Barbara Carroll - American jazz pianist and vocalist. Edmund Sylvers - American singer–songwriter, actor and musician. Sylvers was best known as the lead singer of the American family disco/soul music vocal group The Sylvers, which […]

Anita Baker - American singer-songwriter. She is one of the most popular singers of soulful ballads during the height of the quiet storm period in the 1980s. Starting her career in the late 1970s with the funk band Chapter 8, Baker released her first solo album, The Songstress, in 1983. Jazzie B - British DJ […]

Bobby Blue Bland - American blues singer. Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B. L.J. Reynolds - American singer/songwriter lead singer of R&B group, The Dramatics. Bobby Hutcherson - American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. "Little B's Poem", from the 1966 Blue Note album Components, is one of his best-known […]

Phil Flowers - American singer and composer.

Chuck Willis - American blues, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll singer and songwriter. His biggest hits, "C. C. Rider" and "What Am I Living For", both reached No.1 on the Billboard R&B chart. He was known as The King of the Stroll for his performance of the 1950s dance the stroll. Marvin Junior […]

Rick James - American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, James began his musical career in his teen years. Sadao Watanabe - Japanese jazz musician who plays alto saxophone, sopranino saxophone, and flute. He is known for his bossa nova recordings, although his work encompasses many styles, with collaborations […]

Sonny Stitt - American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. Alphonso Jonhnson - American jazz bassist active since the early 1970s. Stan Getz - American jazz saxophonist. Al Mackey - American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He is a former member of The Watts 103rd Rhythm Street Band and Earth, Wind & Fire.  

Dennis Edwards - American soul and R&B singer who was best known as the frontman in The Temptations, on Motown Records. John Handy - American jazz musician most commonly associated with the alto saxophone. Johnny Bristol - American musician, most famous as a songwriter and record producer for the Motown label in the late 1960s […]

Kae Williams - American DJ, record label owner and producer. Florence LaRue -  American singer and actress, best known as an original member of the 5th Dimension.

King Curtis - American saxophonist who played rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock and roll. A bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer. A master of the instrument, he played tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone.

Otis Leavill - American R&B singer, songwriter and record company executive. Ron Tyson - First tenor and lead vocalist for the Temptations.