Musician List

This index refers to the 236,879 individual jazz musicians (1,478,936 total entries) included in over 256,741 recording sessions detailed in The Jazz Discography Database as of December 2022.

Important Notice for individuals searching for specific musicians:
Due to time and other constraints, we are unable to respond to requests for discographical data or other information on individual musicians. Many libraries have copies of The Jazz Discography and should be consulted on questions regarding specific musicians. Alternatively, you can purchase a three-month subscription for $29.97 on this web site – see the $9.99 per month subscription price on our home page. Please do not email us as we regret we cannot answer questions about individual musicians.

Musician Listing Updates:
Musicians who wish to have their listings updated are asked to submit full discographical data as per the following list – Please submit this information for each release you wish to have added to the database:

  • Leader name and country
  • Album title
  • Musicians including instrument(s) played
  • Recording location(s) (city) and venue if a live recording
  • Recording date(s)
  • Tunes played (as listed on release)
  • Record label name and release number [LP, CD, Download]
  • Country of origin of Record label

If you are unable to send us this information, please send us scans or photocopies of the releases.

First Name Last Name Instruments Sessions Recording Years
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AndreasX
  • Drums
11985 - 1985
CharlieX
  • Guitar
  • Vocals
22001 - 2013
MadamX
  • Violin
22001 - 2002
MaxX
  • Alto Sax
11993 - 1993
Mr.X
  • Bass
11973 - 1973
Obdewl'lX
  • Guitar
11974 - 1974
MissX & X
  • Scat Vcl
11938 - 1938
X Man 421
  • Keyboards
11989 - 1989
TheX-Rays
  • Vocals
31948 - 1951
M.Xaba
  • Alto Sax
11953 - 1953
NdikoXaba
  • Congas
  • Bells
  • Percussion
11976 - 1976
SibusileXaba
  • Guitar
  • Vocals
  • Nomaphupho
42015 - 2016
Xana
  • Spoken Word
12018 - 2018
Xander
  • Voice
11990 - 1990
EneiasXavier
  • Bass
  • El-b
32007 - 2014
JimXavier
  • Drums
  • Percussion
12010 - 2010
JoelXavier
  • Guitar
12004 - 2004
JoseXavier
  • Drums
12005 - 2005
LouisXavier
  • Bass
  • Arrangement
  • El-b
41975 - 1982
MarinaXavier
  • Vocals
42003 - 2006
VasiliasXenopoulos
  • Tenor Sax
12019 - 2019
VasilisXenopoulos
  • Tenor Sax
  • flautist
  • Sop
  • Alto Sax
  • Saxes
162010 - 2023
VasillisXenopoulos
  • Comp
  • Tenor Sax
12021 - 2021
JohnXepoleas
  • Drums
  • Bar Chimes
21980 - 1984
JohnXerri
  • Tenor Sax
51955 - 1956
BelenXestal
  • Vocals
12009 - 2009
ArmendXhaferi
  • Guitar
42002 - 2006
AnnyXhoffleer
  • Vocals
61937 - 1946
JaceXI
  • Vocals
12020 - 2020
Xian
  • Tamb
11995 - 1995
Tan WeiXiang
  • El-p
12009 - 2009
YiXiang
  • flautist
12012 - 2012
ChenguangXiao
  • Dizi
  • Suona
12009 - 2009
MinXiao-Fen
  • Pipa
  • Vocals
  • Voice
  • Gong
  • Ruan
  • Sanxian
  • Finger-p
161995 - 2020
LiXiaochuan
  • Trumpet
  • Flugelhorn
62010 - 2015
TianjiXie
  • Ehru
11990 - 1990
ChenXieyang
  • Drifter
11998 - 1998
PeterXifaras
  • Comp
  • Keyboards
  • Guitar
12021 - 2021
Alex BragaXimenes
  • Violin
12009 - 2009
Alex BragoXimenes
  • Violin
22009 - 2009
TianXin
  • Chinese Perc
11994 - 1994
IvyXiong
  • Choir
12008 - 2008
EdXiques
  • Alto Sax
  • Sop
  • Bar
  • flautist
  • B-cl
  • Clarinet
  • Alto-fl
  • Bassax
  • Bass
  • Reeds
  • Saxes
  • Sax
571969 - 2011
TXiques
  • Drums
12013 - 2013
T.Xiques
  • Drums
21994 - 2008
MarcalXirau
  • Guitar
12014 - 2014
PereXirau
  • Percussion
12014 - 2014
DavidXirgu
  • Drums
  • Percussion
581988 - 2020
David "Xuxi"Xirgu
  • Drums
12009 - 2009
LiXizochuan
  • Trumpet
12009 - 2009
JaceXL
  • Vocals
12021 - 2021
Xoco
  • Backing Vocals
12021 - 2021
LucaXodo
  • Didjeridu
  • Didgeridoo
21998 - 2000
XT
  • Dj
12018 - 2018
ChristineXu
  • Comp
  • Vocals
12023 - 2023
LynnXu
  • Voice
12018 - 2018
YingXue
  • Viola
  • Violin
12020 - 2020
Xue-Wen-Gao
  • Cello
11991 - 1991
Xuxu
  • Bass
11964 - 1964
XZV3
  • Osni
  • Tenor Sax
11989 - 1989
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