Pittsburgh Jazz Musicians

The lists on this page are not comprehensive and mostly serve to inspire further research and exploration into the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Music Department's collection.

Also, saying that an artist is a "Pittsburgh musician" might mean various things:

• he or she was born here but raised elsewhere (e.g., Paul Chambers),
• was born elsewhere but raised here (e.g., Mary Lou Williams)
• is from a Pittsburgh suburb or exurb (e.g., Vinnie Colaiuta or Slide Hampton)
• attended college here (e.g., Geri Allen or Guy Klucevsek)
• lived here for just a short while (e.g., Lena Horne), and so on.

But all of the artists listed here have contributed to Pittsburgh's reputation as one of the most important cities in the history of jazz.

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Pittsburgh Jazz Musicians

*The criteria used here to determine whether a jazz musician listed above is "internationally known" is whether he or she receives an entry in either Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler's Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz or the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., edited by Barry Kernfeld (also available online under the title Grove Music Online).

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