Miguel Zenón was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There, he studied classical saxophone at the famed Escuela Libre de Musica….

Bobby Broom was born in Harlem on January 18, 1961, and raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. His birth name is Robert Broom,…

Williams was born Joseph Goreed in Cordele, Georgia on December 12, 1918. He moved to Chicago at the age of three with his…

Horace Silver, jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader, was born on Sept. 2, 1928, in Norwalk, Conn.  Silver performed with Stan Getz from 1950…

Dexter Keith Gordon was born on February 27, 1923 in Los Angeles, C.A. His father, Dr. Frank Gordon, was one of the first…

Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was born April 22, 1935, in Pittsburgh, P.A. and died January 4, 1969, in New York, N.Y. He…

McCoy Turner was born 1938 in Philadelphia where he became a part of the fertile jazz and R&B scene of the early ’50s….

Etta Jones was born on November 5, 1928, in Aiken, S.C. and died on October 16, 2001, in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Jazz vocalist…

Roy Hargrove was born on October 16, 1969 in Waco, Texas.  He soon became familiar with the recordings of Maynard Ferguson, Clifford Brown…

Mark Whitfield was born in October 1966 in Long Island, New York. The youngest of five, his love for jazz and blues music…