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Alessandro Lanzoni　

Alex Levin　

Ai Kuwabara　

Antonio Sanchez　

Born in Mexico City on November 1, 1971, Antonio Sanchez started playing drums at the age of five and began performing professionally early in his teens. He pursued a degree in classical piano at t ..more

Alex Sipiagin　

Russian-born jazz trumpeter Alex Sipiagin is an adroit trumpet technician and forward-thinking post-bop improviser who has made his mark on the international jazz scene ever since moving to the Uni ..more

Akira Matsuo　

Anna Maria Alberghetti　

Anna Maria Alberghetti is a singer/actress from Pesaro, Italy. She was touring Europe as a singer at age 12 and made her Carnegie Hall debut at 14. Her film career began with The Medium in 19 ..more

Acoustic Alchemy　

During the late ’80s and ’90s, Nick Webb and Greg Carmichael produced a series of mellow albums classified as adult contemporary music, though the guitarists encompass the range of jazz an ..more

Avishai Cohen　

Born and raised in Israel, Avishai Cohen has often combined Middle Eastern and Israeli music with both electric and acoustic jazz. Cohen began studying the piano at age 11 and was 14 when he ..more

Alex Riel　

Art Blakey / Jazz Messengers　

Albert Ayler　

One of the giants of free jazz, Albert Ayler was also one of the most controversial. His huge tone and wide vibrato were difficult to ignore, and his 1966 group sounded like a runaway {\New Orle ..more

Alphonse Mouzon (Al)　

Several different drummers helped put jazz fusion on the map in the ’70s. The one who seems to get most of the credit is Billy Cobham, but others, such as Alphonse Mouzon, contributed quite a ..more

Alan Broadbent　

An unsung hero of the acoustic piano, Alan Broadbent is a highly lyrical and melodic bebopper/post-bopper who has cited Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Tommy Flanagan, Nat King Cole, and ..more

Azymuth　

Brazilian electrified trio Azymuth called their music samba doido, which means crazy samba. The actual sounds, though, were not so crazy： the intelligent, high-voltage blend of Brazilian r ..more

Andrew Hill　

Andrew Hill was a great and even groundbreaking composer and pianist, yet the relatively circumscribed scale of his innovations might have originally caused him to get lost in the shuffle of the ’6 ..more

Akira Jimbo　

Allan Holdsworth　

Guitarist Allan Holdsworth is widely considered to be one of the finest instrumentalists in all of jazz fusion, yet has never truly received the recognition that he so rightfully deserves. Born ..more

Al Jarreau　

The only vocalist in history to net Grammy Awards in three different categories (jazz, pop, and R＆B, respectively), Al Jarreau was born in Milwaukee, WI, on March 12, 1940. The son of a vi ..more

Art Ensemble Of Chicago　

Originally comprised of saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, trumpeter Lester Bowie, bassist Malachi Favors, and later, drummer Famoudou Don Moye, the Art Ensemble of Chica ..more