WHarry Arnold Persson was a Swedish jazz saxophonist and bandleader. Arnold led his first big band in 1942, playing the saxophone initially but eventually ceasing to perform to concentrate on arranging. From 1949-52 he played and arranged for Thore Ehrling's band and worked extensively as a studio musician, particularly writing film scores through much of the 1950s. From 1956 to 1965 Arnold led the Swedish Radio Big Band, which included Arne Domnérus, Bengt Hallberg, and Åke Persson. American trumpeter Benny Bailey played with the band for a time, and Quincy Jones arranged and briefly led the group; they recorded with Ernestine Anderson, Lucky Thompson, Coleman Hawkins, Toots Thielemans, Tony Scott, and Stan Getz. The group disbanded in 1965, after which Arnold continued work as an arranger and led big bands in Europe. He died in 1971 at the age of 51.
WNik Bärtsch is a Swiss pianist, composer, and record producer from Zurich.
WLautaro "LuKa" Bellucca is a bass and double bassist, composer and arranger, best known as the key bassist in jazz group MUSA's.
WGustav Brom was a Czech big band leader, arranger, clarinetist and composer.
WMirko Fait is an Italian jazz saxophonist and composer.
WJohn Jean Goldkette was a jazz pianist and bandleader.
WShabaka Hutchings is a British-Barbadian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and band leader. He leads the bands Sons of Kemet and Shabaka and the Ancestors. He is also a member of The Comet Is Coming, performing under the stage name King Shabaka. Hutchings has played saxophone with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Floating Points, Mulatu Astatke, Polar Bear, Melt Yourself Down, Heliocentrics and Zed-U.
WGrzegorz Karnas born in 1972, Wodzisław Śląski, Upper Silesia, Poland, is a Polish jazz vocalist, music producer, linguist, photographer, blogger. A resident of Żory
WSzymon Kataszek (1898–1943), was a Polish-Jewish composer, bandleader, pianist, a pioneer of Polish jazz. Born in Warsaw 1898; studied piano at the Warsaw Music Institute and Rome's St. Cecilia Academy. He returned to Poland and first worked as an organist in St. Trinity Church, while also playing piano in nightclubs.
WOleg Leonidovich Lundstrem was a Soviet and Russian jazz composer and conductor of the Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra, one of the earliest officially recognized jazz bands in the Soviet Union.
WMachito was a Latin jazz musician who helped refine Afro-Cuban jazz and create both Cubop and salsa music. He was raised in Havana with the singer Graciela, his foster sister.
WMartin "Musa" Musaubach is an Argentine pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, producer and band leader based in Taiwan.
WArne "Papa" Bue Jensen, known as Papa Bue, was a Danish trombonist and bandleader, chiefly associated with the Dixieland jazz revival style of which he was considered an important proponent. He founded and led the Viking Jazz Band, which was active from 1956.
WBoyd Albert Raeburn was an American jazz bandleader and bass saxophonist.
WRobertinho Silva is a Brazilian drummer known for jazz. His first album was Música Popular Brasileira in 1981.
WDaniel Tinte is a pianist from Argentina.
WJens Wendelboe, is a Norwegian trombonist, composer, music arranger and orchestra leader, known from collaborations with artists like Slide Hampton, Phil Woods, Bill Watrous, Monty Alexander, Donna Summer and Blood, Sweat and Tears.
WDick Abraham Willebrandts was a Dutch pianist, composer and bandleader in the swing era.