PIANO
Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) 
Arthur “Art” Tatum, Jr.  October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) 
Horace Silver (born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva, September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014)
Earl Rudolph “Bud” Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) Harlem, New York City. Tadley Ewing Peake “Tadd” Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965) Cleveland Ohio 
Thelonious Monk was born on October 10, 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945)
James Williams (March 8, 1951 – July 20, 2004) Memphis Tennessee 
Phineas Newborn, Jr. (December 14, 1931 – May 26, 1989)
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) 
Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11, 1938) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Hampton Barnett Hawes, Jr. (November 13, 1928 – May 22, 1977)
Mulgrew Miller (August 13, 1955 – May 29, 2013)
Don Grolnick (b. Brooklyn, NY, September 23, 1947; died June 1, 1996) 
Thomas Lee Flanagan (March 16, 1930 – November 16, 2001)
Kenneth Sidney “Kenny” Drew (August 28, 1928 – August 4, 1993) 
Kenny Barron (born June 9, 1943, Philadelphia) 
William John “Bill” Evans August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980)
William “Red” Garland (May 13, 1923 – April 23, 1984)
Wynton Charles Kelly (December 2, 1931 – April 12, 1971) Jamaican America
Theodore Shaw “Teddy” Wilson(November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986)
Henry “Hank” Jones (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010)
 Jelly Roll Morton Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), New Orleans
Conrad Yeatis “Sonny” Clark (July 21, 1931 – January 13, 1963) 
William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) 
Willie the Lion Smith William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith (23 November 1893 – 18 April 1973), 
 William James “Count” Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984)
Robert Henry “Bobby” Timmons(December 19, 1935 – March 1, 1974) 
Eddie Palmieri (born December 15, 1936) 
Danilo Pérez was born in Panama in 1965 December 29. 
Kenneth David “Kenny” Kirkland (September 28, 1955 – November 12, 1998) 
Richard Powell (September 5, 1931 – June 26, 1956)
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974
James P. Johnson (born James Price Johnson, also known as Jimmy Johnson; February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955)
Pedro Nolasco Jústiz Rodríguez, better known as Peruchín (January 31, 1913 – December 24, 1977)
Charlie Palmieri (November 21, 1927 – September 12, 1988
Rubén González Fontanills (May 26, 1919 – December 8, 2003)
Luis Martínez Griñán (16 February 1917 – 17 September 1990), better known as Lilí Martínez
Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal nameLe Sony’r Ra;^[1] May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) 
Cecil Percival Taylor (born in March 25, 1929)
Guillermo Rubalcaba (January 10, 1927 – September 7, 2015) was 
Francisco Emilio Flynn Rodríguez (April 13, 1921 – August 23, 2001) Frank Emilio Flynn
Scott Joplin (1867/1868 – April 1, 1917)