Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Jazz musicians who received the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres: list of 21 recipients by year.
Recipients
| 2018 | Rhoda Scott American musician |
| 2017 | Eric Clapton British musician |
| 2011 | Michel Portal French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist |
| 2003 | Gilberto Gil Brazilian recording artist, singer, guitarist, songwriter and… |
| 1997 | Martial Solal French jazz pianist and composer (1927–2024) |
| 1986 | Ray Charles American singer, pianist and songwriter (1930–2004) |
| — | Quincy Jones American record producer and composer (1933–2024) |
| — | Yehudi Menuhin American violinist and conductor (1916–1999) |
| — | Miriam Makeba South African singer and civil rights activist (1932–2008) |
| — | Angelique Kidjo Beninese-French world music singer (born 1960) |
| — | Dizzy Gillespie American jazz trumpeter (1917–1993) |
| — | Max Roach American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer (1924–2007) |
| — | Henri Salvador French Caribbean recording artist; singer, songwriter (1917–2008) |
| — | Dee Dee Bridgewater American singer (born 1950) |
| — | Ron Carter American jazz bassist, cellist, and composer (born 1937) |
| — | Barbara Hendricks American operatic soprano and concert singer |
| — | Roy Haynes American jazz drummer and group leader (1925–2024) |
| — | Claude Bolling French jazz musician, composer and pianist (1930–2020) |
| — | Richard Galliano French musician |
| — | Daniel Humair Swiss drummer and painter (born 1938) |
| — | Marcel Azzola French musician (1927–2019) |