swap_horiz Geri Allen Alternatives

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Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader renowned for his sophisticated arrangements and distinc...

Composer Classic Piano Swing

9.9 Brilliant

2

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was an influential American jazz musician renowned for his distinctive piano style and groun...

Composer Modern Classic Piano

9.7 Brilliant

3

Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter is a highly influential jazz musician recognized for his innovative compositions and distinctive tenor sax...

Composer Classic Fusion Post Bop

9.7 Brilliant

4

Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock is a highly influential jazz musician recognized for his pioneering work across multiple genres. He began...

Classic Piano Funk Fusion

9.7 Brilliant

5

Horace Silver

Horace Silver was an American pianist and composer, a hard bop founder who co-led the Jazz Messengers and wrote Song for...

Composer Classic Piano Hard Bop

9.1 Excellent

6

Carla Bley

Carla Bley was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader noted for the 1971 jazz opera Escalator over the Hill.

Composer Classic Avant Garde Piano

8.8 Great

7

Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill was an American pianist and composer whose 1964 Blue Note album Point of Departure is a landmark of advanced...

Composer Classic Piano Post Bop

8.8 Great

8

Woody Shaw

Woody Shaw was an American trumpeter and composer, noted for expanding modern trumpet harmony and for the 1978 Columbia...

Composer Modern Classic Post Bop

8.7 Great

9

Oliver Nelson

Oliver Nelson was an American saxophonist, composer, and arranger, best known for his 1961 Impulse! album The Blues and...

Composer Classic Arranger Post Bop

8.6 Great

10

Brian Blade

Brian Blade is an American drummer and bandleader noted for the Fellowship Band, founded in 1997, and for long work with...

Composer Modern Post Bop Drums

8.6 Great

11

Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams was a U.S. pianist, arranger, and composer who wrote for Andy Kirk in the 1930s and later mentored beb...

Composer Classic Piano Swing

8.5 Great

12

Dave Douglas

Dave Douglas is an American trumpeter and composer who founded Greenleaf Music in 2005 and led projects from Tiny Bell T...

Composer Modern Avant Garde Post Bop

8.3 Great

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Toshiko Akiyoshi

Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese pianist and composer who formed a noted big band with Lew Tabackin in Los Angeles in 1973...

Composer Classic Piano Big Band

8.3 Great

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Barry Harris

Barry Harris was an American bebop pianist and educator from Detroit, known for preserving Bud Powell's language through...

Classic Piano Educator Bebop

8.3 Great

15

Mark Turner

Mark Turner is an American tenor saxophonist known for cerebral modern jazz, including the influential 2001 album Dharma...

Composer Modern Cool Post Bop

8.2 Great

16

Cedar Walton

Cedar Walton was an American pianist and composer who played with Art Blakey in the 1960s and wrote standards such as Bo...

Composer Classic Piano Hard Bop

8.2 Great

17

Jason Moran

Jason Moran is an American pianist and composer who received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010 and became a leading 21st-ce...

Composer Modern Conceptual Piano

8.2 Great

18

Tom Harrell

Tom Harrell is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, and composer, named 2018 Trumpeter of the Year by the Jazz Journali...

Composer Modern Flugelhorn Post Bop

8.1 Great

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Vijay Iyer

Vijay Iyer is an American jazz pianist and composer noted for rhythmically complex trio work and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow...

Composer Modern Rhythmic Piano

8.1 Great

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Fred Hersch

Fred Hersch is an American jazz pianist and composer known for lyrical improvisation and for receiving a 2003 Guggenheim...

Composer Modern Solo Lyrical

8.1 Great