Emmet Cohen　

Enrico Pieranunzi / Marc Johnson / Joey Baron　

Tina Brooks　

Tina Brooks had a short-lived career during the heyday of hard bop and didn’t record for the last 12 years of his life. Nonetheless, his own records and his sessions with Freddie Hubbard, J ..more

Jacob Collier　

Maria Schneider　

Maria Schneider is widely thought of as a potentially great arranger who is following in the footsteps of Gil Evans (her main inspiration), George Russell, and Bob Brookmeyer. After extens ..more

Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack Dejohnette　

Antonio Farao　

Extraordinary Italian pianist Antonio Farao was born in Rome in 1965. He attended the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan in the ’80s, where his musical gifts were refined. Farao began cultivat ..more

Bill Charlap　

Bill Charlap is one of the strongest mainstream jazz pianists on the scene and one of the most gifted interpreters of standards. He grew up in a musical household, as the son of Broadway songwriter ..more

Takeo Moriyama　

Jutta Hipp　

Jutta Hipp had a strangely brief career, dropping out of music altogether shortly after emigrating to the United States. She studied painting in Germany and played jazz during World War II. When ..more

Tord Gustavsen　

Before he started his trio, Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen was already very much involved in his country’s jazz scene. Contributions to releases by groups like the Silje Nergaard Band, the U ..more

Tomasz Stanko　

Jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stanko began his tenure as a major force in European free jazz in the early ’60s with the formation of the quartet Jazz Darins in 1962 with Adam Makowicz. From 196 ..more

Kurt Rosenwinkel　

Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel began his professional career in 1990, when he dropped out of Berklee only two and a half years into his college education to go on tour with Gary Burton and his band. ..more

Joachim Kuhn　

Although not a free jazz musician, per se, Kuhn has been an avant-gardist; he began attempting a fusion of contemporary classical elements with jazz very early in his career. Kuhn ..more

Roy Hargrove　

Roy Hargrove is a hard bop-oriented musician (and acclaimed Young Lion) who became one of America’s premier trumpeters during the late 1980s and beyond. A fine, straight-ahead player who spent ..more

Kamasi Washington　

Kamasi Washington didn’t pick up a saxophone until he was 13 years old, but by that point, he’d already been playing several other instruments. That’s when he found his calling. Within a couple yea ..more

Avishai Cohen (Bassist)　

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 bec ..more

Bill Evans / Jim Hall　

Thad Jones　

A harmonically advanced trumpeter/cornetist with a distinctive sound, as well as a talented arranger/composer, Thad Jones (the younger brother of Hank and older brother of Elvin) had a very p ..more

Honda Takehiro, Ino Nobuyoshi, Moriyama Takeo