Futura Records is a French record company and

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...

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founded in 1969 by Gérard Terronès. Marge Records is a notable subsidiary label. The label changed its name in 2018 into Futura Marge.

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* Richard Accart * Françoise Achard *

Pepper Adams Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III (October 8, 1930 – September 10, 1986) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist and composer. He composed 42 pieces, was the leader on eighteen albums spanning 28 years, and participated in 600 sessions as a s ...

* Gene Adler * Irene Aebi * Ricou Albin *

Michel Alibo Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * Míchel (footballer, born 1963), ...

* Kamal Alim *

Barry Altschul Barry Altschul (born January 6, 1943, in New York City) is a free jazz and hard bop drummer who first came to notice in the late 1960s for performing with pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea. Biography Altschul is of Russian Jewish heritage, ...

* Jean-Claude André * Jacky Arconte * Horacee Arnold * Patrick Artéro * Georges Arvanitas * Nicole Aubiat * Jean-Jacques Avenel * Billy Bang * Francis Baron des grottes * Eric Barret * Philip Barry * Claude Barthélémy * Abdou Beckouri * Fanfan Belles Cuisses * Roquet Belles Oreilles * Mourad Benhammou * Abdelhaï Bennani * Yves Berg *

Dominique Berose "Dominique" is a 1963 French language popular song, written and performed by Belgian singer Jeannine Deckers, better known as Sœur Sourire ("Sister Smile" in French) or The Singing Nun. The song is about Saint Dominic, a Spanish-born priest an ...

* Jac Berrocal * Michel Bertier * Airelle Besson * John Betsch * Zéno Bianu * Cyrille Bibounet * Charly Bidineux * François Billard * Marvin Blackman * Jean-Philippe Blin * Jacques Bolognesi * Bastien Boni * Raymond Boni * Maurice Bouhana * Francky Bourlier * Mario Branlo *

Anthony Braxton Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Braxton grew up on the South Side of Chi ...

Willem Breuker Willem Breuker (4 November 1944 – 23 July 2010) was a Dutch bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindri ...

* Cameron Brown *

George Brown George Brown may refer to: Arts and entertainment * George Loring Brown (1814–1889), American landscape painter * George Douglas Brown (1869–1902), Scottish novelist * George Williams Brown (1894–1963), Canadian historian and editor * Ge ...

Marion Brown Marion Brown (September 8, 1931 – October 18, 2010) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, writer, visual artist, and ethnomusicologist. He was a member of the avant-garde jazz scene in New York City during the 1960s, playing alongsi ...

* Rob Brown * Kendall Buchanan * Michel Bulteau * Roy Burrowes * Jaki Byard * Jerry Byrd * Roy Campbell Jr. * Patrice Caratini * Didier Carlier * Daniel Carter * Kent Carter * Philippe Catan * Jean-François Catoire * Olivier Cauquil *

Jean-Paul Celea Jean Paul or ''variation'' may refer to: Places * Rue ''Jean-Paul-II'', several streets, see List of places named after Pope John Paul II * Place ''Jean Paul II'', several squares, see List of places named after Pope John Paul II People Given nam ...

Jean-Claude Cenci Jean-Claude is a French masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: People called Jean-Claude * Jean-Claude Ades, an Italian electronic music producer * Jean-Claude Alibert (died 2020), a French racing driver * Jean-Claude Amiot ( ...

* Marc Chambon * Alain "Paco" Charlery * Remi Charmasson * Jean-Louis Chautemps * Pierre Chereze * Brigitte Choupette * Pierre Christophe * Ernest Guiraud Cissé * Curtis Clark * Gerald Cleaver * Jerome Cooper * Levender Cope * Ray Copeland * Dominique Coster *

Pierre Courbois Pierre Courbois (born 23 April 1940 in Nijmegen, Netherlands) is a Dutch jazz drummer, bandleader, and composer. Career He is the younger brother of actress Kitty Courbois. After studying percussion at the ''Hogeschool der Kunsten'' in Arnhem, ...

* Emmanuel Cremer * Clyde Crymer * Bob Cunningham * Frank Curier * Ted Curson * Leo Cuypers *

Andrew Cyrille Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 1939) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his career, he has performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, among others. AllMusic biographer ...

* Chris Dailey McCraven * Dominique Dalmasso * Irene Datcher * Art Davis * Richard Davis * Charles Davis * Santi De Briano * Irakly de Davrichewy * Chris de Foy * Patrick De Groote * Laurent de Wilde * Raphaël Dever * Bruno Di Goia * Frankie Di Lagio * Akua Dixon * Sophia Domancich * Laure Donnat * Dany Doriz * Hamid Drake * Rémy Dédé Dréano * Bob Driessen * Jean-Pierre Drouet * Daniel Dublet * Benjamin Duboc * Philippe Duchemin *

Johnny Dyani Johnny Mbizo Dyani (30 November 1945 – 24 October 1986) was a South African jazz double bassist, vocalist and pianist, who, in addition to being a key member of The Blue Notes, played with such international musicians as Don Cherry, Steve L ...

* Carl Ector * Michel Edelin * Paco el Lobo * Steve Ellington * Henri-Jean Enu * Goran Eriksson * Olav Estienne * Charles Eubanks * Cheikh Tidiane Fall * Jacques Fassola * Roger Ferlet * Michel Fernandez *

Glenn Ferris Glenn Arthur Ferris (born June 27, 1950) is an American jazz trombonist who has also worked in other fields. Outside of jazz he has played for Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, and Duran Duran. He studied classical music from 1958 to 196 ...

* Marcus Fiorillo * Joe Fonda * Ricky Ford * Jean-Marc Foussat * Claudine François * Laurent Geniez * Daniel Geoffroy * Gérard Gélas * Patrick Géoffrois * Denis Gheerbrandt * Lafayette Gilchrist * John Gilmore * Jef Gilson *

Dexter Gordon Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He was among the most influential early bebop musicians. Gordon's height was , so he was also known as "Long Tall Dexter" an ...

* Arjen Gorter * Simon Goubert * Jacques Gouré * Pierre-Olivier Govin * Enrico Granafei * Rael Wesley Grant * Lou Grassi * Candice Greene * Charles Greenlee * Jack Gregg * Roger Gremillot * Sonny Grey * Dick Griffin * Alexandra Grimal * Dieter Guevissier * Jean Guérin * Roger Guérin * Beb Guérin * Sylvain Guérineau * François Guildon * Ernest Guiraud Cissé *

Barry Guy Barry John Guy (born 22 April 1947, in London, England) is an English composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of or ...

Doug Hammond Doug Hammond (born December 26, 1942) is an American free funk/avant-garde jazz drummer, composer, poet, producer, and professor. His first major release was ''Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen'' on Tribe Records in 1975. Career He has worked ...

* Billy Harper * Ray Harris * Yves Hasselmann * Didier Hauck * Guy Hayat *

Roy Haynes Roy Owen Haynes (March 13, 1925 – November 12, 2024) was an American jazz drummer. In the 1950s, he was given the nickname "Snap Crackle" for his distinctive snare drum sound and musical vocabulary. He is among the most recorded drummers in ja ...

* Eddie Henderson *

Fred Hersch Fred Hersch (born October 21, 1955) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and a 17-time Grammy nominée. He was the first person to play weeklong engagements as a solo pianist at the Village Vanguard in New York City. He has recorded more than ...

John Hicks Sir John Richard Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics ...

* Patience Higgins * Benoit Holliger * Everett Hollins *

Sylvia Howard Sylvia may refer to: People *Sylvia (given name) *Sylvia (singer), American country music and country pop singer and songwriter *Sylvia Robinson, American singer, record producer, and record label executive *Sylvia Vrethammar, Swedish singer cred ...

* Bernard Hunnekink * David Jackson * Ambrose Jackson * Hakim Jami * Clifford Jarvis * Alain Jean-Marie * Jean-François Jenny Clark * Terry Jenoure * Kevin Jones *

Philly Joe Jones Joseph Rudolph "Philly Joe" Jones (July 15, 1923 – August 30, 1985) was an American Jazz drumming, jazz drummer. Biography Early career As a child, Jones appeared as a featured tap dancer on ''The Kiddie Show'' on the Philadelphia radio stat ...

* Bert Jouis * Ray Kaczynski * Siegfried Kessler * Lansine Kouyaté *

Peter Kowald Peter Kowald (21 April 1944 – 21 September 2002) was a German free jazz and free improvising double bassist and tubist. Career A member of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and a touring double-bass player, Kowald collaborated with many European f ...

* Bob Kunningham * Thierry dit Kühl le clown *

Joachim Kühn Joachim Kurt Kühn (born 15 March 1944) is a German jazz pianist. Biography Kühn was born in Leipzig, Germany. He was a musical prodigy and made his debut as a concert pianist, having studied classical piano and composition, with Arthur Schmidt-E ...

* Papé l' écrivain * Christophe Laborde *

Steve Lacy Steve Thomas Lacy-Moya (born May 23, 1998) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He gained recognition as the guitarist of the alternative R&B band the Internet, which he joined in 2015. His self-produced debut EP, '' ...

Oliver Lake Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American List of jazz saxophonists, jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano saxophone, soprano and flute. D ...

* Didier Lasserre * Jobic le Masson * Fernand le salé darlès * Fred le vicomte électrique * Patricia Lebeugle * Ronald Lecourt * Benjamin Legrand * Dominique Lentin * Jean-Pierre Lentin * Didier Levallet *

Victor Lewis Victor Lewis (born May 20, 1950) is an American jazz drummer, composer, and educator. Early life Victor Lewis was born on May 20, 1950, in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Richard Lewis, who played saxophone and mother, Camille, a pianist-vocalist ...

* Christian Lété * Chris Lightcap *

Kirk Lightsey Kirkland "Kirk" Lightsey (born 15 February 1937), is an American jazz pianist. Biography Lightsey had piano instruction from the age of five and studied piano and clarinet through high school. After serving in the army, Lightsey worked in Detr ...

* Abbey Lincoln * Wilbur Little * Sébastien Llado * Guillaume Loizillon *

Frank Lowe Frank Lowe (June 24, 1943 – September 19, 2003) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer. Biography Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Lowe took up the tenor saxophone at the age of 12. As an adult he moved to San Francisco, where h ...

* Barbara Lowengreen * Eric Löhrer * Curtis Lundy * Paul Lytton * Véronique Magdelenat *

Didier Malherbe Didier Malherbe (born 22 January 1943) is a French jazz, rock, and world music musician and poet. He is a member of the bands Gong and Hadouk. He plays the saxophone, flute, alto clarinet, ocarina, Laotian Khen, Bawu flute, Hulusi, and ma ...

* Fred Malle * Gérard Marais * Stu Martin * Philippe Martineau * Philippe Maté * Art Matthews * Ray Mauger * Bénédicte Maulet * Steve Mc Call * Charles McGee * Hirshel McGinnis * Joe McPhee * François Méchali * Gilles Mézières * Claude Micheli * Mine * Pépée Minègue * Jouck Minor * Roland Molinier * Gato Montauban * Matt Moran * Pierre Moret * Wilber Morris * Lawrence 'Butch' Morris * Benjamin Moussay * David Murray * Margriet Naber * Gilles Naturel * Guillaume Naturel * Nolle Neels * Harvey Neneux * Marce of Mémé Flippée * Itaru Oki * Leïla Olivesi * Ferhat Öz * Evrim Özsuca * Antoine Paganotti * Guy Paquin * Jeff Parker * William Parker * Evan Parker * Stéphane Payen * Sylvie Peristeris * Walter Perkins * Félix Perron * Pierrick Pédron *

Barre Phillips Barre Phillips (October 27, 1934 – December 28, 2024) was an American jazz double bass, bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he moved to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. From 1972 he was based in southern France, where in ...

* Alain Pinsolle * Michel Portal * Steve Potts * Jean-Claude Pourtier * Eddie Preston * John Purcell * Joe Quitzke * Boy Raaymakers * Joseph Racaille * Hugh Ragin * Sha Rakotofiringa * Alain Raman * Roger Raspail * Richard Raux * Antonin Rayon * Luc Rebelles *

Freddie Redd Freddie Redd (May 29, 1928 – March 17, 2021) was an American hard-bop pianist and composer. He is best known for writing music to accompany '' The Connection'' (1959), a play by Jack Gelber. According to Peter Watrous, writing in ''The New Y ...

* Jean-Marie Redon * Dizzy Reece * Wolfgang Reisinger * Marc Richard * Adil Riski * Sam Rivers * Christian Rollet * Jean-Paul Rondepierre * Yvon Rosillette * Brandon Ross * Hilton Ruiz *

Leo Sab Leo is the Latin word for lion. It most often refers to: * Leo (constellation), a constellation of stars in the night sky * Leo (astrology), an astrological sign of the zodiac * Leo (given name), a given name in several languages, usually mas ...

* Arnaud Sacase * Mokhtar Samba * Réda Samba * Jacky Samson * Maré Sanogo * Bernard Santacruz * Makoto Sato * Charles Saudrais * Julie Saury * Emmanuel Scarpa * Jean-Jacques Schnell * Bruno Schorp *

John Schroder John Michael Schroder Sr. (born February 23, 1961) is an American businessman from Covington, Louisiana, Covington, Louisiana who served as Louisiana State Treasurer, state treasurer from 2017 to 2024. He was formerly a Republican Party (United S ...

* Jeff Yochk'o Seffer * Jaribu Shahid * Avery Sharpe * Sonny Sharrock *

Archie Shepp Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz. Biography Early life Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but ...

* Sahib Shihab * Doug Sides * Alan Silva *

Sonny Simmons Huey "Sonny" Simmons (August 4, 1933 – April 6, 2021) was an American jazz musician. Biography Simmons was born on August 4, 1933, in Sicily Island, Louisiana. He grew up in Oakland, California, where he began playing the English horn. (Along ...

* Hal Singer * Warren Smith * Philippe Soirat * Pierre-Yves Sorin * James Spaulding * Louis 'Mbiki' Spears * Daiva Starinskaite * Anna Startseva * Charles Stephens * Gil Sterg * John Stewart * Ricardo Strobert * Marc Stutz-Boukouya * Gilbert Sulma Pontoise *

John Surman John Douglas Surman (born 30 August 1944) is an English jazz saxophone, Clarinet family, clarinet, and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music. He has composed and performed music for danc ...

* Eric Surmenian * Pierre Surtel * Armand Talot Man * Claude Talvat *

Art Taylor Arthur S. Taylor Jr. (April 6, 1929 – February 6, 1995) was an American jazz drummer, who "helped define the sound of modern jazz drumming".Watrous, Peter (February 7, 1995)"Art Taylor, 65, Jazz Drummer Who Inspired Young Musicians" ''The Ne ...

John Tchicai John Martin Tchicai ( ; 28 April 1936 – 8 October 2012) was a Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer. Biography Tchicai was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to a Danish mother and a Congolese father. The family moved to Aarhus, where he s ...

* Jacques Thollot * Malachi Thompson * Tonton * Jean My Truong * Assif Tsahar * Steve Turre * François Tusques * Paul Van Gysegem * Willem Van Manen * Maarten Van Norden * Jasper Van't Hof * André Velter * Jaanika Ventsel * Rob Verdurmen * Patrick Vian * Bernard Vitet * Aly Wagué *

Freddie Waits Frederick Douglas Waits (April 27, 1943 – November 18, 1989) was an American hard bop and post-bop drummer. Waits never officially recorded as leader, but was a prominent member and composer in Max Roach's M'Boom percussion ensemble. He work ...

Mal Waldron Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...

* Andrea Walter * James Ware * Reggie Washington *

Ben Webster Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor Saxophone, saxophonist. He performed in the United States and Europe and made many recordings with Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Johnny Hodges, a ...

* Mark Whitecage * Barney Wilen * Michelle Wiley * Joe Lee Wilson * Jan Wolf *

Chris Woods Christopher Charles Eric Woods (born 14 November 1959) is an English football coach and former professional footballer, who is goalkeeping coach for the Scotland national team. As a player, he was a goalkeeper (association football), goalke ...

Reggie Workman Reginald "Reggie" Workman (born June 26, 1937) is an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey, in addition to Alice Coltrane, Mal Waldron, Max Roach, Archie Shepp, Tri ...

Octave Z In music, an octave (: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the diapason) is an interval between two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other. The octave relationship is a natural phenomenon that has been referre ...

* Michael Zerang

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