List of composers of African descent

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Abels, USA (born 1962)
Muhal Richard Abrams, USA (born 1930)
Leslie Adams, USA (born 1932)
Eleanor Alberga, Jamaica (born 1949)
Thomas Jefferson Anderson (TJ), USA (born 1928)
William Banfield, USA (born 1961)
David Baker, USA (born 1931)
Leon Bates, USA, pianist
Eubie Blake, USA (1883 - 1983)
Anthony Braxton, USA (born 1945)
Harry Burleigh, USA (1866-1949)
Billy Childs, USA (born 1957)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, England (1875 - 1912)
Roque Cordero, Panama (born 1917)
Arthur Cunningham, USA (born 1928)
William L. Dawson, USA (1899 - 1990)
Anthony Davis, USA (born 1951)
Robert Nathaniel Dett, Canada (1882 - 1943)
Julius Eastman, USA (1940 - 1990)
Edward Kennedy Ellington (Duke Ellington), USA (1899 - 1974), jazz big band leader
James Reese Europe, USA (1881 - 1919)
Donal Fox, USA (born 1952)
Adolphus Hailstork, USA (born 1941)
William Christopher Handy (W.C. Handy), (1873 - 1958), USA blues
Bobby McFerrin (Robert McFerrin Jr.), USA (born 1950) jazz, unique vocalise, sacred, classical, multitalented composer-vocalist-conductor
Billy Strayhorn (William Thomas Strayhorn), USA (1917-1967) one of the most highly regarded jazz & big band composers & arrangers; Ellington's friend and arranger
Talib Rasul Hakim, (1940 - 1988)
Fletcher Henderson, USA (1897 - 1952), jazz big band leader
Justin Holland, USA Classical Guitarist
Tony Jackson, USA (1876 - 1921), pianist
Leroy Jenkins, USA (born 1932)
Hall Johnson, USA (1888 - 1970)
Scott Joplin, USA (1868 - 1917)
Ulysses Kay, USA (1917 - 1995)
Fela Anikulapo Kuti , Nigeria (born 1938)
Wynton Marsalis (born 1961)
Roscoe Mitchell, USA (born 1940)
Thelonious Monk, USA (1917 - 1982)
Undine Smith Moore, USA (1905 - 1989)
Jeffrey Mumford, USA (born 1955)
Jose Nunes-Garcia, Brazil (1767 - 1830)
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, USA (1932-2004)
Walter Robinson, (b.1952)
Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1739 - 1799)
Alvin Singleton, (born 1940)
Hale Smith, USA (born 1925)
William Grant Still, USA (1895 - 1978)
Howard Swanson, USA (1907 - 1978)
George Walker, USA (born 1922)
Fats Waller, USA (1904 - 1943), singer, jazz musician
Joseph White, Cuba (1835 - 1918)
Thomas Wiggins (Bethune) or Blind Tom, (1849 - 1908)
Clarence Williams, USA (1893 - 1965), publisher, jazz musician
Olly Wilson, USA (born 1937)
John Wesley Work III, USA (1901 - 1967)
Stevie Wonder, (born 1950)
Fonta Tanka Emmanuel,Cameroon, (born 1966),composer, multi-instrumentalist
Julius P. Williams,USA(born 1954)
Nathaniel L. Mitchell Jr., USA (born 1975)