Nancy Wilson - American singer and actress whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid-1950s until her retirement in the early 2010s. She was especially notable for her single " How Glad I Am" and her version of the standard "Guess Who I Saw Today".

Nina Simone - American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and pop. Nina Simone, photographed in July, 1969.

Harvey Mason - American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay. Buddy Tate - American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.

Hall Overton - American composer, jazz pianist and music teacher.

David "Fathead" Newman - American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist, who made numerous recordings as a session musician and leader, but is best known for his work as a sideman on seminal 1950s and early 1960s recordings by Ray Charles.