WAlbert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.
WAustin Dean "Bud" Brisbois was a jazz and studio trumpeter. He played jazz, pop, rock, country, Motown, and classical music.
WWilliam "Sonny" Criss was an American jazz musician.
WJames Louis Johnson was an American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.
WGeorge Paxton was an American big band leader, saxophonist, arranger, and publisher during the 1930s and 1940s. He was president of Coed Records and a producer for the label.
WBen Pollack was an American drummer and bandleader from the mid-1920s through the swing era. His eye for talent led him to employ musicians such as Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Jimmy McPartland, and Harry James. This ability earned him the nickname the "Father of Swing".
WPekka Juhani Pöyry was a Finnish jazz and rock saxophonist and flutist. He was part of the Pekka Pöyry Quartet and Quintet.
WAnn Richards was an American pop and jazz singer; she was the second wife of popular music and jazz artist Stan Kenton. She had a short but fruitful popular music and jazz career in the late 1950s and early 1960s as an artist for Capitol Records.
WRonnie Singer was an American jazz guitarist from Chicago. Singer was influential on other jazz musicians, and was considered “just as good as Jimmy Raney", according to Jimmy Gourley who played with both guitarists in Chicago. He was heavily addicted to heroin. At the age of 25, he and his wife committed suicide together in a New York City hotel room. According to Lou Levy, Singer "was one of the great losses... He would have been one of the all-time greats."
WEllen Radka Toneff was a Norwegian jazz singer, daughter of the Bulgarian folk singer, pilot and radio technician Toni Toneff, she was born in Oslo and grew up in Lambertseter and Kolbotn. She is still considered one of Norway's greatest jazz singers.