Shorty Long - American soul singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer for Motown's Soul Records imprint. He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1980.
Ronald Isley - American recording artist, songwriter, record producer, and occasional actor. Isley is best known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group The Isley […]
Charles Earland - American jazz organist. Patti Labelle - American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of […]
Miles Davis - American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.
Dee Dee Bridgewater - American jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award-winning stage actress. For 23 years, she was the host of […]
Gladys Knight - American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and author.
Charles Drain - American singer. Marlo Henderson - American guitarist and saxophonist, who played in mainly blues and R&B genres. As a session musician he played on albums such as […]
Nelson Riddle - American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s.
Jimmy Jones - American singer-songwriter who moved to New York City while a teenager. According to Allmusic journalist Steve Huey, "best known for his 1960 R&B smash, 'Handy Man,' Jones […]
Leroy Hutson - American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, arranger, producer and instrumentalist, best known as former lead singer of R&B vocal group The Impressions. His music concerns '70s soul, […]
Ronnie Dyson - American soul and R&B singer and actor. Kenny G - American smooth jazz saxophonist. His 1986 album Duotones brought him commercial success. Kenny G is one of […]
Nikki Giovanni - American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Billy Butler - American soul singer and songwriter active in the 1960s and 1970s. Prince - American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record […]
