Composers — Jazz, popular
1929-2023
Burt Bacharach ♂1929-1987
Osmo Lindeman ♂1929-2020
Lennie Niehaus ♂1929-2004
Cy Coleman ♂1929-1970
Gideon N.N. Nxumalo ♂1929-2020
Pedro Iturralde ♂1929-2001
Francis Bebey ♂1929-2010
Alfredo Marcucci ♂1929-2012
Albert Biales ♂1929-2004
John Mayer ♂1929-
Toshiko Akiyoshi ♀1930-2020
Frederick Charles Tillis ♂1930-2014
Kenny Wheeler ♂1930-2011
Maria Elena Walsh ♀1930-2015
Ornette Coleman ♂1930-
Harald Banter ♂1930-2021
Stephen Sondheim ♂1930-2020
Claude Bolling ♂1930-2016
Claus Ogermann ♂1930-2009
John "Billy" Verplanck ♂1930-2004
Naomi Shemer ♀1930-1999
Lionel Bart ♂1930-2004
Ray Charles ♂1931-2021
Leslie Bricusse ♂1931-2017
Dominic Frontiere ♂1931-2019
Jerry Herman ♂1931-1968
Jan Johansson ♂1931-2001
Milton Barnes ♂1931-2016
David N. Baker ♂1932-
Stanley Walden ♂1932-2019
Michel Legrand ♂1932-2007
Leroy Jenkins ♂1932-2018
Francis Lai ♂1932-2004
Coleridge Taylor Perkinson ♂1932-2007
Joe Zawinul ♂1932-2013
Bengt Hallberg ♂1932-2025
Jean Michel Defaye ♂1932-2007
Andrzej Kurylewicz ♂1932-2016
Gato Barbieri ♂1932-1991
James Cleveland ♂1933-2003
François Rauber ♂1933-2024
Quincy Jones ♂1933-2017
William Brohn ♂1933-2021
Karl Heinz Wahren ♂1933-2016
Alden Banning Ashforth ♂1933-2022
Nils Lindberg ♂1933-1990
Siegfried Behrend ♂1934-2024
Georg Riedel ♂1934-1987
Victor Stanley Feldman ♂1934-1998
Raymond Premru ♂1934-
Dave Grusin ♂1934-
Tom Springfield ♂1934-1978
Donald Ellis ♂1934-
João Donato ♂1934-2019
Jacques Loussier ♂1934-
Tony Coe ♂1935-2024
Laurens van Rooyen ♂1935-1988
Warren Casey ♀1935-2005
Elias Gistelinck ♂1935-2017
Misha Mengelberg ♂1935-2019
Stepan Shakaryan ♂1935-
Birgitte Grimstad ♀1935-2020
Wolfgang Dauner ♂1936-2012
Obo Addy ♂1936-2020
Billy Goldenberg ♂1936-
Mike Westbrook ♂1936-2018
Carol Hall ♀1936-
Manfred Schoof ♂1936-2012
John Tchicai ♂1936-2023
Carla Bley ♀1936-
Klaus Doldinger ♂1936-2020
Harold Budd ♂1936-2011
Jean Charles Capon ♂1936-2020
André Gagnon ♂1936-1995
Don Cherry ♂1937-2019
Alfred Janson ♂1937-2022
Angelo Badalamenti ♂1937-2021
John Hassell ♂1937-2000
Jack Nitzsche ♂1937-
David Shire ♂1937-
Michael Gibbs ♂1937-
Bo Anders Persson ♂1937-2020
Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin ♂1938-
Ian McDougall ♂1939-1978
Claude François ♂1939-
Fuzzy ♂1939-
Neil Sedaka ♂1939-
Jean Schwarz ♂1939-
Arni Egilsson ♂1939-
Heikki Sarmanto ♂1939-
Tony Hatch ♂1939-
Jarmo Sermilä ♂1939-2024
Marvin Laird ♂1939-
Wendy Carlos ♀1939-2013
Henrik Otto Donner ♂1939-
Bob James ♂1940-1995
Julius Hemphill ♂1940-
Brian Bennett ♂1940-2001
Werner Pirchner ♂1940-1979
Vagif Mustafa Zadeh ♂