WBhumibol Adulyadej, conferred with the title King Bhumibol the Great in 1987, was the ninth monarch of Thailand from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IX. Reigning since 9 June 1946, he was the world's longest-reigning current head of state from the death of Emperor Hirohito of Japan in 1989 until his own death in 2016, and is both the second-longest reigning monarch of all time and the longest-reigning monarch to have reigned only as an adult, reigning for 70 years and 126 days. During his reign, he was served by a total of 30 prime ministers beginning with Pridi Banomyong and ending with Prayut Chan-o-cha.
WJuan Bautista H. Alegre III, known professionally as Johnny Alegre, is a jazz guitarist and composer from Manila, Philippines. He leads the jazz group Johnny Alegre Affinity and the world music group Humanfolk.
WLeon Golzmann or as he was more commonly known, Dajos Béla, was Russian jazz violinist and band-leader.
WLautaro "LuKa" Bellucca is a bass and double bassist, composer and arranger, best known as the key bassist in jazz group MUSA's.
WDekel Bor is an Israeli jazz guitarist and composer.
WHayden Chisholm is a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist from New Zealand. He performs jazz, improvised music, and contemporary classical music.
WKaja Draksler is a Slovenian pianist and composer.
WLajos Dudas is a German-Hungarian jazz clarinetist and composer.
WFrans Petter Eldh is a Swedish jazz bass player and composer, who predominantly has worked first in Denmark, and since 2009 he has lived in Berlin.
WMirko Fait is an Italian jazz saxophonist and composer.
WHugo Fattoruso was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1943. Fattoruso is a composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. As well as developing a career as a soloist, he has participated and performed in many different genres: Trio Fattoruso, Hot Blowers, Los Shakers, Opa, Eduardo Mateo, etc. He has collaborated also with such renowned artists as : Airto Moreira, Abraham Laboriel, Manolo Badrena, Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento, Ruben Rada, Djavan, etc.
WChris Gall is a German jazz pianist and composer.
WSalman Huseyn oglu Gambarov is an Azerbaijani jazz pianist and composer.
WGismo Graf is a German jazz musician.
WTrilok Gurtu is an Indian percussionist and composer whose work has blended the music of India with jazz fusion and world music.
WLisa Kristine Hilton is an American jazz pianist, bandleader, producer, and composer based in Southern California. Her compositions blend jazz and blues with minimalism, classical, and avant-garde music. Since the early 2000s she has recorded with Antonio Sánchez, Larry Grenadier, Christian McBride, and Sean Jones.
WDaniel Humair is a drummer, composer, and painter.
WHilmar Jensson is an Icelandic guitarist.
WDarko "Charlie" Jurković is a Croatian jazz guitarist and composer.
WJulia Kadel is a German jazz pianist and composer.
WLauren Kinsella is an Irish jazz and improvisation music singer and composer.
WPetr Kroutil is a Czech musician and actor. He is a vocalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader who plays clarinet, flute, saxophone, and the bansuri.
WEva Kruse is a German jazz musician and composer.
WLionel Loueke is a guitarist and vocalist born in Benin. He moved to Ivory Coast in 1990 to study at the National Institute of Art.
WJeremy Monteiro is a jazz pianist, singer, composer, and music educator. In his native country he was named "Singapore's King of Swing" by the local press. He was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 2002.
WMartin "Musa" Musaubach is an Argentine pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, producer and band leader based in Taiwan.
WVagif Mustafazadeh, also known as Vaqif Mustafa-Zadeh, was an Azerbaijani jazz pianist and composer, acclaimed for fusing jazz and the traditional Azerbaijani folk music known as mugham. According to many world famous jazz musicians, Mustafazadeh is one of the pioneers and "the architect of jazz in Azerbaijan".
WShahin Novrasli is an Azerbaijani jazz and classical pianist, and composer
WTale Ognenovski was a Macedonian multi-instrumentalist who played clarinet, recorder, tin whistle, bagpipe, zurna, and drums. He composed or arranged 300 instrumental compositions: Macedonian folk dances, jazz compositions, and classical concerts.
WLinda May Han Oh is an Australian jazz bassist and composer.
WMthutuzeli Dudu Pukwana was a South African saxophonist, composer and pianist.
WAnna-Maria Yordanova Ravnopolska-Dean, born 3 August 1960, Sofia, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian and American harpist, composer, pedagogue, musicologist and TV host.
WPeter Tripp Sprague is an American jazz guitarist, record producer, and audio engineer. He owns SpragueLand Studios and the label SBE Records. He invented a twin-neck guitar with one neck from a classical guitar and one from a steel-string acoustic guitar.
WRadha Thomas is the Executive Vice-President at Explocity Private Limited, a media publishing house in India. She has held this position since 1999. She is an author, vocalist, and the leader of the jazz fusion band UNK: the Radha Thomas Ensemble.
WDaniel Tinte is a pianist from Argentina.
WYang Jing is a composer and pipa soloist of Chinese origin. Between 1997 – 2009 she often toured in Japan. Since 2001, she has lived in Switzerland. Her composition premiere recording was Der Grosse Wagen (瀚空七星) by the First European Chinese Ensemble; A Traveller's Chant.