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William McKinley "Red" Garland Jr. (May 13, 1923 – April 23, 1984) was an American modern jazz pianist.

Nina Simone (/ˈniːnə sɪˈmoʊn/ NEE-nə sim-OHN; born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, composer, arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and pop. Her piano playing was strongly influenced by baroque and classical music, especially Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice.

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American singer, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, absolute pitch, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.

Pianist Bugge Wesseltoft has long been a shaper of his own jazz idioms, through his diverse solo albums, his group projects such as New Conception of Jazz, OKWorld! and Rymden, and collaborations with artists such as Sidsel Endresen, Henning Kraggerud or Henrik Schwarz. Am Are features special constellations of superb musicians that spans both generations and styles, and is an exploration of sonic textures, dynamic contrasts of mood and style, and ranges from sparse arrangements through to complex layers of dubs and loops and improvisational interplay. The album showcases a selection of projects and collaborations that Bugge enjoys and finds inspiring, all of which demonstrate the power of human communication and interplay within music.

Born in Altadena, California, Scott got her start performing locally at age 15. She went to college in San Francisco, singing in both jazz and pop ensembles there. She was noticed by Emilio Castillo, a member of Tower of Power, who hired her to do backing vocals for the group. This led to further work as a session musician in Los Angeles, working with Spyro Gyra, The Yellowjackets, Hiroshima, Etta James, and Bobby Womack. She also appeared in a production of Selma, about the life of Martin Luther King Jr.

On 'Nueva Timba', the second Blue Note album by Cuban-born pianist Harold López-Nussa, the jazz vanguard meets multiple eras of Cuba's musical history with results that are at once accessible, life-affirming and strikingly accomplished.

Pursuit of a Pulse is the endless quest for music that makes one’s heart race—the ceaseless life-affirming pulse that emerges when music seeps deep into one’s pores.

Tisziji Muñoz (born July 15, 1946) is an American jazz guitarist.
He served as drummer in the 440th U.S. Army band. He left the US Army in 1969. In the 1970s, he lived in Canada and New York City. He played in Pharoah Sanders' band.

I Am Shee: Original Recordings, 1979-1987 is a musical anthology and image capsule surveying the work of New York vocalist, composer, and visual artist Amy Sheffer. From the late 60 to early 90s, Sheffer wrote, recorded, and privately pressed a series of albums defined by her full-hearted, full-on vibrato vocals and an imaginative scenery set by various loft jazz ensembles. Freedom to Spend’s collection features selections from Sheffer’s Sanctuary Mine, Where’s Your Home?, and We’um, along with a print companion of album ephemera, photo documentation, poetry, and hallucinogenic drawings. Sheffer’s output is evidence of a life fully charged and receptive to free-flowing energies — every object a portal, every sound an attunement.

Shirley Valerie Horn (May 1, 1934 – October 20, 2005) was an American jazz singer and pianist.