Laura Nyro - American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry, and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and the 5th Dimension recording her songs. Wynton Marsalis - American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director […]

Wilbert Hart - American soul singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as a founding member of the musical group The Delfonics. George McCrae - American soul and disco singer, most famous for his 1974 hit "Rock Your Baby". Jennifer Holiday - American singer and actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as […]

Eddie Harris - American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ. His best-known compositions are "Freedom Jazz Dance", popularized by Miles Davis in 1966, and "Listen Here." David Mancuso - American disc jockey who created the popular […]

Steve Cropper - American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, which backed artists such as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor. Dizzy Gillespie - American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a […]

Bobby Fuller - American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for "Let Her Dance" and his cover of the Crickets' "I Fought the Law", recorded with his group The Bobby Fuller Four. Curtis Womack - American rhythm and blues vocalist.