List of composers of African descent
Composers of African descent, including African American composers, include:
- 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)
- Eubie Blake, USA (1883 - 1983)
- Anthony Braxton, USA (born 1945)
- 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 - 1991)
- Edward K. 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)
- W.C. Handy, (1873 - 1958), USA blues
- Talib Rasul Hakim, (1940 - 1988)
- Fletcher Henderson, USA (1987 - 1952), jazz big band leader
- Jonathan Holland
- Tony Jackson, (1876 - 1921), pianist
- Leroy Jenkins, USA (born 1932)
- Hall Johnson, USA (1888 - 1970)
- Scott Joplin, USA (1868 - 1917)
- Ulysses Kay, USA (1917 - 1995)
- Roscoe Mitchell, USA (born 1940)
- Thelonious Monk, USA (1917 - 1982)
- Undine Smith Moore, USA (1905 - 1989)
- Jose Nunes-Garcia, Brazil (1767 - 1830)
- Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, USA (born 1932)
- Walter Robinson, (b.1952)
- Joseph 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)
see also: List of African-Americans
