Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964 in Hampton, Virginia) is an electric bass guitar player. He is highly regarded among his musical peers for his extraordinary technical virtuosity and...

Buttery smooth are the words one would use to describe the sultry vocals of Jazz great Al Jarreau.   Born March 12, 1940 in Milwaukee Wisconsin, Alwyn Lopez Jarreau was one of the few jazz ...

George Benson (b. March 22, 1943, Pittsburgh) is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of 21 as a jazz guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Po...

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Hancock is one of jazz music's most important and influential pianists and composers. H...

Jean-Luc Ponty (born September 29, 1942, Avranches, France) is a virtuoso French violinist and jazz composer.  LifePonty is the son of a violin teacher, who began his instruction before he m...

  Corinne Bailey Rae (born Corinne Bailey on 26 February 1979) is an English singer and songwriter who released her eponymous debut album Corinne Bailey Rae in February 2006. Rae was named t...

James "Boney James" Oppenheim, (born September 1, 1961 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is a saxophonist who popularized urban jazz (an updated version of contemporary jazz that contains elements of hi...

Al Di Meola (born Al Laurence Dimeola July 22, 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist.   Di Meola grew up in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and att...

Sheila Escovedo (born December 12, 1957, in Oakland, California), known by her stage name Sheila E., is an American musician, perhaps best known for her work with Prince and Ringo Starr.  ...

Billy Cobham, born May 16, 1944 in Panama, is one of the world's best and most influential drummers known for his jazz fusion in the 1970s, with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, where he ...

Christian McBride (born May 31, 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle, Howard Cooper, are well known Philadelphia bassists who s...

Eric Marienthal is a Los Angeles-based contemporary saxophonist best known for his work in the jazz, smooth jazz, and pop genres. After graduating high school in Southern California in 1976, Er...

Joyce Cooling is a San Francisco-area smooth jazz guitarist. Growing up in New Jersey, she absorbed a wide variety of music, and developed a personal style of fingerpicking that has given her play...

Lee Mack "Captain Fingers" Ritenour (born January 11, 1952) is a session musician and recording artist. He had a minor U.S. hit with "Is It You" in 1981. Ritenour holds the distinction of havin...

This is a Japanese name; the family name is Akiyoshi. Toshiko Akiyoshi, born December 12, 1929 is a jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. She is among the first successful female instr...

The members of The Manhattan Transfer as they appear on their 2004 album, Vibrate. Left to right are Cheryl Bentyne, Tim Hauser, Janis Siegel and Alan Paul.The Manhattan Transfer is the name of tw...

Anyone who has ever seen Diana Reeves in concert will agree that she is truly amazing, far more so in person than on album. While her music is to be enjoyed no matter what, her live performances a...

One of the most famous female jazz instrumentalists, Melba Liston was born January 13th, 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri.  She spent many years playing and was eventually more recognized for he...