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This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on Wikipedia. Do not enter names that lack articles. Do not enter names that lack sources.
Ruth Brown (1928–2006) Ane Brun (born 1976) Mari Kvien Brunvoll (born 1984) Joyce Bryant (1928–2022) Beryl Bryden (1920–1998) Michael Bublé (born 1975) Sarah Buechi (born 1981)
Marker commemorating Thomas Merton in Louisville, Kentucky. Merton's influence has grown since his death, and he is widely recognized as an important 20th-century Catholic mystic and thinker. Interest in his work contributed to a rise in spiritual exploration beginning in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States.
Art Tatum. Arthur Tatum Jr. ( / ˈteɪtəm /, October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever. [ 1][ 2] From early in his career, fellow musicians acclaimed Tatum's technical ability as extraordinary. Tatum also extended jazz piano's vocabulary and boundaries far beyond his ...
Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [ 4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...
Kurt Bestor (born 1958) is an American keyboardist and composer specializing in new-age, film scores, and jazz. He is known for his instrumental Christmas arrangements. His best-known songs are "Prayer of the Children", "Mama Don't You Weep". He is also known for composing music for the 1993 movie Rigoletto, and for writing music for the 2002 ...
Saint Patrick's Breastplate. " Saint Patrick's Breastplate " is an Old Irish prayer of protection of the "lorica" type (hence " Lorica Sancti Patricii ", or "The Lorica of Saint Patrick") attributed to Saint Patrick . Its title is given as Faeth Fiada in the 11th-century Liber Hymnorum that records the text.
Weir was born in San Francisco, California, to John (Jack) Parber (1925–2015), of Italian and German ancestry, and a fellow college student, Phyllis Inskeep (1924–1997), of German, Irish, and English ancestry, who later gave him up for adoption; [5] he was raised by his adoptive parents, Frederic Utter Weir and Eleanor (née Cramer) Weir, in Atherton. [6]