Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Jazz musicians who received the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres: list of 30 recipients by year.
Recipients
| 2022 | Cyrille Aimée French jazz singer |
| 2016 | Vincent Peirani French musician |
| 2015 | Jacques Schwarz-Bart French jazz saxophonist |
| 2012 | Nguyên Lê French jazz guitarist |
| 2009 | Youn Sun Nah South Korean jazz singer |
| 2008 | Sanseverino French singer |
| 2005 | Sylvain Luc French musician (1965–2024) |
| 2001 | Paolo Conte Italian recording artist; musician |
| 1997 | Randy Weston American jazz pianist (1926–2018) |
| 1992 | Hal Singer American musician (1919–2020) |
| 1984 | Dorival Caymmi Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter (1914–2008) |
| — | Ella Fitzgerald American jazz singer (1917–1996) |
| — | Toots Thielemans Belgian jazz musician (1922–2016) |
| — | Clark Terry American swing and bebop trumpeter (1920–2015) |
| — | Ibrahim Maalouf French-Lebanese trumpeter and composer (born 1980) |
| — | Toshiko Akiyoshi Japanese American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, band master |
| — | Albert Mangelsdorff German jazz trombonist (1928–2005) |
| — | Stacey Kent American recording artist; singer |
| — | Manu Katché French drummer, studio musician, composer, singer, lyricist… |
| — | Michael Snow Canadian artist (1928–2023) |
| — | Médéric Collignon French musician |
| — | Bojan Zulfikarpašić Serbian jazz musician |
| — | Mike Zwerin American jazz musician (1930-2010) |
| — | Vincent Courtois French cellist |
| — | Didier Levallet French musician |
| — | Ivan Jullien French music arranger and jazz musician (1934–2015) |
| — | David Linx Belgian singer |
| — | Riccardo Del Fra Italian composer |
| — | François Guin French conductor and trumpeter |
| — | Jean-Louis Chautemps French jazz musician, saxophonist (1931–2022) |