Grace Jones - Jamaican-American model, singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. In 1999, Jones ranked 82nd on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, and in 2008, she was honored with a Q Idol Award. Tom Scott - American saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He was a member of The Blues Brothers and led the […]
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 Brothers.
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 the vocal group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Prince Buster - Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. Sarah Dash - American singer and actress. She first appeared […]
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 National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. Ramsey Lewis - American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality. Lewis has recorded over […]
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 Off the Wall by Michael Jackson, Them Changes by Buddy Miles, Face to Face by Evelyn "Champagne" King, I Am. He also played on the […]
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 sang in a smooth yet soulful falsetto modeled on the likes of Clyde McPhatter and Sam Cooke." Lee Andrews - Lead singer of the Philadelphia […]
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, as noted in the June 29, 2006 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. He is the father of producer JR Hutson. El Debarge - American singer-songwriter, […]
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 the best-selling artists of all time, with global sales totaling more than 75 million records. Brian McKnight - American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and […]
