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Jazz artists: a listening guide
Explore 116 artists from early jazz to the present. Discover key albums and listening ideas, then explore the records in the Atlas.
- Louis Armstrong
- Duke Ellington
- Django Reinhardt
- Charlie Parker
- Miles Davis
- John Coltrane
- Bill Evans
- Ornette Coleman
- Art Blakey
- Sonny Rollins
- Herbie Hancock
- Wayne Shorter
- Gil Evans
- Stan Getz
- Antônio Carlos Jobim
- Hermeto Pascoal
- Astor Piazzolla
- Abdullah Ibrahim
- Toshiko Akiyoshi
- Keith Jarrett
- Pat Metheny
- Esbjörn Svensson
- Avishai Cohen
- Hiromi Uehara
- Robert Glasper
- Yazz Ahmed
- Count Basie
- Stéphane Grappelli
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Thelonious Monk
- Chick Corea
- João Gilberto
- Egberto Gismonti
- Jan Garbarek
- Horace Silver
- Max Roach
- Charles Mingus
- Eric Dolphy
- Sun Ra
- Pharoah Sanders
- Alice Coltrane
- McCoy Tyner
- Freddie Hubbard
- Lee Morgan
- Wes Montgomery
- Grant Green
- Sarah Vaughan
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Billie Holiday
- Art Tatum
- Lester Young
- Coleman Hawkins
- Benny Goodman
- Jimmy Smith
- Jaco Pastorius
- Joe Zawinul
- Brad Mehldau
- Esperanza Spalding
- Kamasi Washington
- Wynton Marsalis
- Branford Marsalis
- Cassandra Wilson
- Diana Krall
- Ron Carter
- Tony Williams
- Chucho Valdés
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba
- Tomasz Stańko
- Enrico Rava
- John McLaughlin
- Dave Holland
- Mulatu Astatke
- Zakir Hussain
- Anouar Brahem
- Dhafer Youssef
- Rabih Abou-Khalil
- Ryo Fukui
- Sadao Watanabe
- Terumasa Hino
- Yosuke Yamashita
- Flora Purim
- Airto Moreira
- Milton Nascimento
- Toninho Horta
- Aziza Mustafazadeh
- Anat Cohen
- Cannonball Adderley
- Chet Baker
- Oscar Peterson
- Marcus Miller
- Tigran Hamasyan
- Norah Jones
- Lionel Loueke
- Yussef Dayes
- Melissa Aldana
- Miho Hazama
- Jim Hall
- Ahmad Jamal
- Quincy Jones
- George Benson
- John Scofield
- Bill Frisell
- Nguyên Lê
- Gregory Porter
- Takuya Kuroda
- Ibrahim Maalouf
- Nduduzo Makhathini
- Naïssam Jalal
- Camila Meza
- Antonio Loureiro
- Jon Batiste
- Patricia Brennan
- Shun Ishiwaka
- Pedro Martins
- Andrea Motis
- Rita Payés
This guide introduces a selection of the artists in the catalogue. Use the Atlas search to discover more musicians and recordings.