Questo è un elenco ordinato alfabeticamente di musicisti jazz, inclusi strumentisti e cantanti. Vedi anche jazz, swing, bebop, Dixieland, Kansas City style, New Orleans style, Chicago style, Latin jazz, free jazz, jazz-rock e scat.
- Cannonball Adderley
- Nat Adderley
- Rashied Ali
- Henry Allen
- Gene Ammons
- Fred Anderson
- Louis Armstrong
- Chet Atkins
- Albert Ayler
- Mildred Bailey
- Chet Baker
- LaVern Baker
- Patricia Barber
- Charlie Barnet
- Count Basie
- Sidney Bechet
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Louie Bellson
- Richard Rodney Bennett
- Edward Joseph Blackwell
- Art Blakey
- Jimmy Blanton
- Buddy Bolden
- Lester Bowie
- Willem Breuker
- Teresa Brewer
- Clifford Brown
- Ray Brown
- Dave Brubeck
- Beryl Audrey Bryden
- Jaki Byard
- Don Byas
- Charlie Byrd
- Donald Byrd
- Cab Calloway
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Harry Howell Carney
- Benny Carter
- Betty Carter
- Ray charles
- Adolphus Anthony Cheatham
- Don Cherry
- Charlie Christian
- Buck Clayton
- Rosemary Clooney
- Cosy Cole
- Nat King Cole
- Cy Coleman
- Ornette Coleman
- Alice Coltrane
- John Coltrane
- Eddie Condon
- Harry Connick, Jr.
- Chris Connor
- Chick Corea
- Pete Cosey
- Hank Crawford
- Tadd Dameron
- John Philip William Dankworth
- Miles Davis
- Wild Bill Davison
- Blossom Margrete Dearie
- Sacha Distel
- Bill Dixon
- Baby Dodds
- Johnny Dodds
- Dorothy Donegan
- Kenny Dorham
- Jimmy Dorsey
- Tommy Dorsey
- Kenny Drew
- George Duke
- Guy Durosier
- Billy Eckstine
- Harry Edison
- Roy Eldridge
- Duke Ellington
- Herb Ellis
- James Reese Europe
- Bill Evans
- Tal Farlow
- Arthur Stewart Farmer
- Favori di Malachia
- Maynard Ferguson
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Tommy Lee Flanagan
- Helen Forrest
- Frank Benjamin Foster III
- Bud Freeman
- Von Freeman
- Hank Garland
- Erroll Garner
- Stan Getz
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Jimmy Giuffre
- Benny Goodman
- Dexter Gordon
- Stéphane Grappelli
- Johnny Griffin
- Charlie Haden
- Bob Haggart
- Adelaide Hall
- Chico Hamilton
- Lionel Hampton
- Herbie Hancock
- Roland Pembroke Hanna
- Tom Harrell
- Barry Harris
- Eddie Harris
- Coleman Hawkins
- Jeff Healey
- Percy Heath
- Fletcher Henderson
- Joe Henderson
- Woody Herman
- Andrew Hill
- Earl Hines
- Milt Hinton
- Alois Maxwell Hirt
- Art Hodes
- Johnny Hodges
- Billie Holiday
- Shirley Horn
- Freddie Hubbard
- Milt Jackson
- Illinois Jacquet
- Harry James
- Keith Jarrett
- Leroy Jenkins
- Bunk Johnson
- JJ Johnson
- James P. Johnson
- Lonnie Johnson
- Elvin Jones
- Jo Jones
- Jonah Jones
- Philly Joe Jones
- Duca Jordan
- Stan Kenton
- Barney Kessel
- Lee Konitz
- Diana Krall
- Gene Krupa
- Pete La Roca
- Steve Lacy
- Cleo Laine
- Eddie Lang
- Peggy Lee
- John Lewis
- Meade Lewis
- Abbey Lincoln
- Huey Long
- Jimmie Lunceford
- Humphrey Lyttelton
- Albert Mangelsdorff
- Herbie Mann
- Michael ("Dodo") Marmarosa
- Wynton Marsalis
- Warne Marsh
- Susannah McCorkle
- Jack McDuff
- Bobby McFerrin
- Bernie McGann
- Jackie McLean
- Marian McPartland
- Carmen McRae
- Brad Mehldau
- George Melly
- Glenn Miller
- Mulgrew Miller
- Charles Mingus
- Hank Mobley
- Thelonious Monk
- Piccolo fratello Montgomery
- Wes Montgomery
- James Moody
- Joe Morello
- Frank Morgan
- Lee Morgan
- Ella Mae Morse
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Bennie Moten
- Paul Motian
- Fats Navarro
- David ("Fathead") Newman
- Herbie Nichols
- Jimmie Noone
- Red Norvo
- Anita O'Day
- Re Oliver
- Sy Oliver
- Kid Ory
- Walter Page
- Charlie Parker
- Les Paul
- Jim Pepper
- Oscar Peterson
- Michel Petrucciani
- Bud Powell
- Sammy Price
- Tito Puente
- Lou Rawls
- Dewey Redman
- Django Reinhardt
- Rita Reys
- Buddy Rich
- Max Roach
- Sonny Rollins
- Jimmy Rushing
- Pee Wee Russell
- Paul William Rutherford
- Henri Gabriel Salvador
- Maria Schneider
- Ronnie Scott
- Bud Shank
- Artie Shaw
- George Shearing
- Archie Shepp
- Wayne Shorter
- Horace Silver
- Nina Simone
- Zoot Sims
- Jimmy Smith
- Esperanza Spalding
- Rex Stewart
- Sonny Stitt
- Billy Strayhorn
- Sun Ra
- Esbjörn Svensson
- Buddy Tate
- Art Tatum
- Billy Taylor
- John Martin Tchicai
- Jack Teagarden
- Ed Thigpen
- Lucky Thompson
- Henry Threadgill
- Mel Tormé
- Lennie Tristano
- Big Joe Turner
- McCoy Tyner
- Bebo Valdés
- George Abel Van Eps
- Sarah Vaughan
- Malcolm Earl (Mal) Waldron
- Fats Waller
- Cedar Walton
- David Spencer Ware
- Grover Washington, Jr.
- Benny Waters
- Ethel Waters
- Chick Webb
- Ben Webster
- Dicky Wells
- Frank Wess
- Randy Weston
- Paul Whiteman
- Cootie Williams
- Joe Williams
- Mary Lou Williams
- Tony Williams
- Cassandra Wilson
- Teddy Wilson
- Lester Young
- Joe Zawinul