Knight Bachelor
Jazz musicians who received the Knight Bachelor: list of 5 recipients by year.
Recipients
| 2007 | George Shearing British-American jazz pianist |
| 2006 | John Dankworth British musician (1927-2010) |
| — | Malcolm Arnold English composer and conductor (1921–2006) |
| — | Karl Jenkins Welsh musician and composer (b. 1944) |
| — | Richard Rodney Bennett British composer and pianist (1936-2012) |