Allen, Steve (New York City)
The original host of The Tonight Show
Famous Composers from United States
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Bacharach, Burt (Kansas City)
The pianist who co-wrote "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" and "Walk On By" -
Bowles, Paul (Jamaica)
Author of The Sheltering Sky -
Cage, John (Los Angeles)
Composer of the silent piano piece 4' 33" -
Carlos, Wendy (Pawtucket)
Synthesizer performer of the album Switched-On Bach -
Coleman, Ornette (Fort Worth)
The plastic sax player who launched Free Jazz -
Copland, Aaron (New York City)
American composer who wrote Appalachian Spring -
Ellington, Duke
Performer of "Take the 'A' Train" -
Evans, Bill (Plainfield)
One of the all-time greats on jazz piano -
Frisell, Bill (Baltimore)
Innovative guitarist who recorded In Line -
Garner, Erroll (Pittsburgh)
The guy who wrote the song "Misty" -
Gershwin, George (Brooklyn)
Composer of Rhapsody in Blue -
Gillespie, Dizzy (Cheraw)
The bebop trumpeter with the upturned horn -
Glass, Philip (Baltimore)
Modern composer who did Einstein on the Beach -
Guaraldi, Vince (San Francisco)
The jazz pianist who wrote the music for Charlie Brown -
Hamlisch, Marvin (New York City)
Composer of A Chorus Line -
Handy, W.C. (Florence)
The composer called "The Father of the Blues" -
Jones, Quincy (Chicago)
The jazz/pop maestro who produced Michael Jackson's album Thriller -
Kerr, Anita (Memphis)
Creator and leader of country music's The Anita Kerr Singers -
Manilow, Barry (Brooklyn)
Singer of the 1974 hit tune "Mandy" -
Menken, Alan (New Rochelle)
The composer behind The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast -
Mingus, Charles (Nogales)
Jazz bassist and composer who did Pithecanthropus Erectus -
Miranda, Lin-Manuel (New York City)
The creator and star of the musical Hamilton -
Monk, Thelonious (Rocky Mount)
Influential and idiosyncratic bop jazz pianist -
Newman, Alfred (New Haven)
17 February 1970 -
Newman, Randy (New Orleans)
Oscar-winning composer for the Toy Story movies -
Porter, Cole (Peru)
The Broadway master who wrote "Night and Day" -
Rodgers, Richard (New York City)
Composer of Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music -
Schwartz, Stephen (New York City)
Composer of the Broadway hits Wicked and Godspell -
Sondheim, Stephen (New York City)
West Side Story lyricist and superstar Broadway composer -
Sousa, John Philip
The guy who wrote "Stars and Stripes Forever" -
Strayhorn, Billy (Dayton)
Composer of "Take the 'A' Train" -
Williams, John (Floral Park)
Composer of the themes from Jaws and Star Wars -
Zappa, Frank (Baltimore)
Iconoclastic rocker who did "Dynamo Hum" -
Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe (Miami)
The first woman composer to win a Pulitzer