Occupation-Entertainer-Jazz Musician
Grant Green (1935-1979)
American jazz guitarist, composer, and bandleader Grant Green, who recorded more than 30 albums, was an only child born to...
Davey Yarborough (1953- )
Composer, conductor, flutist, saxophonist, and pedagogic Davey Yarborough was born in 1953 in Washington, DC. He attended Paul and Rabaut...
Teddy Wilson (1912-1986)
Orchestral pianist, violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger of the Swing to Bebop eras, Teddy Wilson was born Theodore Shaw Wilson...
Walter Franklin Anderson (1915-2003)
The grandson of formerly enslaved people, Walter Franklin Anderson, classical pianist, organist, composer, jazz musician, community activist, and academician, was...
August Agboola Browne (1895-1976)
Polish freedom fighter, jazz musician, and British citizen August Agboola Browne was born in British-controlled Lagos, Nigeria, on July 22,...
The Golden Gate Quartet (1934- )
The Golden Gate Quartet was formed in 1934 in Norfolk, Virginia, as the Golden Gate Jubilee Singers by four teenage...
Take 6 (1980- )
A cappella doo-wop, gospel sextet Take 6 was formed on the only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Seventh Day...
Terence Blanchard (1962- )
Composer, conductor, trumpeter Terence Oliver Blanchard, Sr. was born on March 13, 1962, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Joseph O....
Grover Washington (1943-1999)
Grover Washington was a popular American jazz saxophonist, with a style reflecting soul-jazz and jazz funk, as well as a...
