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This is a list of composers of African ancestry.

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H leslie adams
H. Leslie Adams

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor c.1893
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor c. 1893

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E

Duke Ellington at the Hurricane Club 1943
Duke Ellington at the Hurricane Club, Broadway, NYC

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  • José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Brazil (1767–1830)
  • Philip Gbeho, Ghana (1904–1976)
  • Kerry J. Gilliard, US (born 1972)
  • Harry P. Guy, US (1870–1950)

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Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin
  • Michael Jackson, US (1958–2009), singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, choreographer, musician, businessman
  • Tony Jackson, US (1876–1921), pianist
  • Leroy Jenkins, US (1932–2007)
  • Jose Julian Jiménez, Cuba (1823–1880)
  • Lico Jiménez (José Manuel Jiménez Berroa), Cuba (1851–1917)
  • Francis Johnson, US (1792–1844)
  • Hall Johnson, US (1888–1970)
  • James Price Johnson, US (1894–1955)
  • J. Rosamond Johnson, US (1873–1954)
  • Victor C. Johnson, US (born 1978)
  • Irving Jones, US (1873-1932) ragtime composer
  • Trevor Jones, South Africa and United Kingdom (born 1949), film composer
  • Scott Joplin, US (1868–1917)
  • Quincy Jones, US (born 1933)
  • Joe Jordan, US (1882–1971)

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  • Ulysses Simpson Kay, US (1917–1995)

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Thelonious Monk, Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 (William P. Gottlieb 06221)
Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, 1947

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Young Saint-Georges in 1768
Saint-Georges in 1768, aged 22
  • Brian Raphael Nabors, US (born 1991)
  • Gary Powell Nash, US (born 1964)
  • Oliver Nelson, US (1932–1975)
  • J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Ghana (1921–2019)
Composer Florence Price (cropped)
Price, date unknown

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William Grant Still by Carl Van Vechten
William Grant Still

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  • Shirley Thompson, English-born composer of Jamaican descent
  • Henry Threadgill, US (born 1944), jazz composer
  • Dean Clay Taylor, US (born 1943), classical composer

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Benjamin Steinberg and Prof. George Walker
George Walker at right
Fats Waller edit
Fats Waller

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Dates of birth and death are unknown for several composers whose music, published during the 19th century, is described in "Historical Notes on African-American and Jamaican Melodies". These composers include Harry Bloodgood, Samuel Butler, Dudley C. Clark, Harry Davis, Pete Devonear, Fred C. Lyons, Henry Newman, James S. Putnam, and Francis V. Seymour.

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