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Ernest Bloch
Ernest Bloch
American composer (1880-1959)
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Michael Kamen
Michael Kamen
American film score composer, orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, and session musician
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Naked City
Naked City
American band
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Tadd Dameron
Tadd Dameron
American pianist
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Erik Friedlander
Erik Friedlander
American musician
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Tan Dun
Tan Dun
Chinese composer
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass
American composer and pianist
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John Williams
John Williams
American composer, conductor, pianist and trombonist (born 1932)
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Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal
American Blues musician famous for incorporating elements of world music
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Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein
American composer and conductor (1922-2004)
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Erich Zeisl
Erich Zeisl
Austrian composer
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War
War
American funk band
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Christopher Rouse
Christopher Rouse
American composer
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Elliot Goldenthal
Elliot Goldenthal
American composer
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Morton Gould
Morton Gould
American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist
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Ralph Shapey
Ralph Shapey
American composer and conductor
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Roy Hargrove
Roy Hargrove
American jazz trumpeter
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Henry Cowell
Henry Cowell
American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario
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John Cage
John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
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Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin
American violinist and conductor (1916–1999)
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Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman
American avant-garde composer
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Moby
Moby
American musician, singer, songwriter, producer, author, and animal rights activist
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Gunther Schuller
Gunther Schuller
American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician
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The Mekons
The Mekons
band
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Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
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Jarmo Savolainen
Jarmo Savolainen
Finnish musician
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Eric Whitacre
Eric Whitacre
American composer
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Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp
American musician
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Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin
American singer-songwriter
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Leonard Feather
Leonard Feather
British musician
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Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel
American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz (1925-2020)
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Craig Walsh
Craig Walsh
American composer
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Wayne Horvitz
Wayne Horvitz
American musician
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Steve Reich
Steve Reich
American composer
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Makanda Ken McIntyre
Makanda Ken McIntyre
American jazz musician and composer
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Alan Paul
Alan Paul
American singer
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Eric Bibb
Eric Bibb
American singer-songwriter
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Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
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James Chirillo
James Chirillo
Jazz guitar
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Charles Strouse
Charles Strouse
American composer and lyricist
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Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, and pianist
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Marc Johnson
Marc Johnson
American jazz bass player, composer and band leader
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Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
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Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero
musician and composer from Mexico
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John Corigliano
John Corigliano
American composer
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Paul Shortino
Paul Shortino
American rock singer and musician
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Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
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John Zorn
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
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Mick Guzauski
Mick Guzauski
American audio engineer
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Maggie Reilly
Maggie Reilly
British singer
Eric Qin
American composer

Eric Qin

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Eric Lee Chin, also known as Eric Qin (1967 – April 19, 1993), was an American composer of experimental music. While studying at the Mannes College of Music in New York City in the early 1990s, Qin founded the Rough Assemblage composers' collective, along with Mark De Gli Antoni and Norman Yamada.

Born and raised in New York City, Qin was killed in a bicycle accident on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on April 19, 1993, at the age of 25. His music was performed posthumously at the 1993 Bang on a Can Festival, and a CD of his music entitled Photographs was released in 2002.