Jazz percussionists
84 jazz musicians in the atlas play percussion instrument, including Frank Zappa, Phil Collins, Carlos Santana, Oscar Peterson and Gilberto Gil. Open a profile for dates, discography and line-ups.
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Excluding zoomusicological instruments and the human voice, the percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments. In spite of being a very common term to designate instruments, and to relate them to their players, the percussionists, percussion is not a systematic classificatory category of instruments, as described by the scientific field of organology. It is shown below that percussion instruments may belong to the organological classes of idiophone, membranophone, aerophone and chordophone.
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Frank Zappa
1940–1993 · American musician (1940–1993)
Phil Collins
b. 1951 · English drummer, singer, and songwriter (born 1951)
Carlos Santana
b. 1947 · American guitarist
Oscar Peterson
1925–2007 · Canadian jazz pianist (1925–2007)
Gilberto Gil
b. 1942 · Brazilian recording artist, singer, guitarist, songwriter…
Al Jarreau
1940–2017 · American jazz and pop singer (1940–2017)
Lionel Hampton
1908–2002 · American jazz musician (1908–2002)
Arturo Sandoval
b. 1949 · Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer
Achinoam "Noa" Nini
b. 1969 · Israeli singer and political activist
Billy Cobham
b. 1944 · Panamanian jazz drummer and composer (born 1944)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
1935–1977 · American musician (1935-1977)
Klaus Doldinger
1936–2025 · German musician, composer, bandleader and saxophonist…
Jack DeJohnette
1942–2025 · American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer (1942–2025)
Naná Vasconcelos
1944–2016 · Brazilian percussionist (1944–2016)
Philip Bailey
b. 1951 · American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter…
Airto Moreira
b. 1941 · Brazilian drummer and percussionist
Moondog
1916–1999 · American composer (1916–1999)
Mulatu Astatke
b. 1943 · Ethiopian musician
Flora Purim
b. 1942 · Brazilian jazz singer
Jamie Cullum
b. 1979 · English jazz singer and pianist
Roscoe Mitchell
b. 1940 · American jazz musician (born 1940)
Vagif Mustafazadeh
1940–1979 · Azerbaijani musician (1940-1979)
Marilyn Mazur
1955–2025 · Danish musician (1955–2025)
Trilok Gurtu
b. 1951 · Indian musician
Lester Bowie
1941–1999 · American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)
Irène Schweizer
1941–2024 · Swiss jazz pianist (1941–2024)
Gary Bartz
b. 1940 · American jazz saxophonist (born 1940)
Cándido Camero
1921–2020 · Cuban percussionist (1921-2020)
Machito
1912–1984 · American-Cuban Latin jazz musician (1912-1984)
Ray Anderson
b. 1952 · American jazz trombonist
Armando Peraza
1924–2014 · Cuban percussionist (1924-2014)
Henry Threadgill
b. 1944 · American jazz musician (born 1944)
Don Pullen
1941–1995 · American jazz pianist and organist (1941-1995)
Tony Esposito
b. 1950 · Italian singer-songwriter
Arto Tunçboyacıyan
b. 1957 · Turkish musician of Armenian ancestry (born 1957)
Vladimir Kuzmin
b. 1955 · Russian musician (born 1955)
Alex Acuña
b. 1944 · Peruvian musician
Paulinho da Costa
b. 1948 · Brazilian musician
Guem
1947–2021 · Algerian percussionist
Norman Connors
b. 1947 · American musician
Aston Barrett
1946–2024 · Jamaican musician (1946–2024)
Don Moye
b. 1946 · American percussionist
Will Calhoun
b. 1964 · American musician
Mino Cinelu
b. 1957 · French musician
Glen Velez
b. 1949 · American musician
Sabu Martinez
1930–1979 · American musician (1930–1979)
Eric Reed
b. 1970 · American musician
Okay Temiz
b. 1939 · Turkish musician (born 1939)
Pete Escovedo
b. 1935 · Mexican-American jazz musician and percussionist
Jack Costanzo
1919–2018 · American musician (1919–2018)
Ed Mann
1954–2024 · American musician (1954–2024)
Tullio De Piscopo
b. 1946 · Italian drummer, percussionist and singer.
Pierre Favre
b. 1937 · Swiss jazz drummer and percussionist
Cyro Baptista
b. 1950 · Brazilian musician
Collin Walcott
1945–1984 · American musician, ethnomusicologist (1945–1984)
Chano Pozo
1915–1948 · Cuban musician (1915-1948)
Ralph MacDonald
1944–2011 · Trinbagonian-American percussionist, songwriter, musical…
Shirley Bunnie Foy
1936–2016 · American jazz musician (1936–2016)
Kip Hanrahan
b. 1954 · American jazz music impresario, record producer and…
Tom Skinner
b. 1980 · British jazz musician
Nate Smith
b. 1974 · American jazz drummer, composer, and music executive
Steve Reid
1944–2010 · American musician (1944-2010)
Don Alias
1939–2006 · American jazz percussionist (1939–2006)
Ches Smith
b. 2000 · American musician
Cibelle
b. 1978 · Brazilian singer
Giovanni Hidalgo
b. 1963 · Puerto Rican percussionist and music educator
Alex Riel
1940–2024 · Danish musician (1940–2024)
Erika Stucky
b. 1962 · Swiss jazz composer, singer and accordionist
Charles Neville
1938–2018 · American musician (1938–2018)
Lionel Batiste
1931–2012 · American jazz and blues musician (1931–2012)
Mola Sylla
b. 1956 · Senegalese musician
Joe Porcaro
1930–2020 · American drummer (1930–2020)
Patrick Scales
b. 1965 · German musician
Nippy Noya
b. 1946 · Indonesian musician
James Mtume
1947–2022 · American jazz and R&B musician, songwriter, record…
Milton Cardona
1944–2014 · a percussionist, vocalist and conga player from Mayagüez…
V. Selvaganesh
b. 1966 · Indian musician
Pete Cosey
1943–2012 · American guitarist (1943–2012)
Emil Richards
1932–2019 · American musician (1932–2019)
Leroy Williams
1937–2022 · American jazz drummer
Colin Allen
b. 1938 · English blues drummer
Sammy Figueroa
b. 1948 · American percussionist
Ray Mantilla
1934–2020 · American jazz drummer (1934–2020)
Malachi Favors
1927–2004 · American bassist (1927-2004)