Lewis Nash
Lewis Nash( born December 30, 1958) is an American jazz drummer.
According to" Modern Drummer" magazine, Nash has one of the longest discographies in jazz and has played on over 400 records, earning him the honor of Jazz's Most Valuable Player by the magazine in its May 2009 issue.
Nash is noted for his adaptability to a vast array of genres, as evidenced by his performances with such different musicians as Tommy Flanagan and Don Pullen.
Nash has made 5 recordings as bandleader:" Rhythm is My Business"( 1989)," It Do n't Mean a Thing"( 2003 Japanese import) and" Stompin' at the Savoy"( 2005 Japanese import)," Lewis Nash and the Bebop All- Stars featuring Frank Wess"( 2008 Japanese Import), and" The Highest Mountain"( 2012).
In 2008, Nash became part of The Blue Note 7, a septet formed that year in honor of the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records.
Petrus de Domarto
Petrus de Domarto( fl. c. 1445– 1455) was a Franco- Flemish composer of the Renaissance.
He was a contemporary and probable acquaintance of Ockeghem, and was the composer of at least one of the first unified mass cycles to be written in continental Europe.
Alexander Courage
Alexander Mair" Sandy" Courage Jr.( December 10, 1919
May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.
He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original" Star Trek" series.
It Don't Matter to Me
" It Do n't Matter to Me" is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by the pop-rock group Bread, of which Gates was a member.
The song was a Top 10 hit in the U.S. and Canada.
In the U.S., it reached# 10 on the" Billboard" Hot 100 and# 7 on the" Cash Box" Top 100.
In Canada," It Do n't Matter to Me" spent two weeks at# 6, and is ranked as the 81st biggest hit of 1970.
" It Do n't Matter to Me" was included on the group's 1969 debut LP rather than their second album from which the previous single," Make It with You", was taken.
The 1970 single release was a new version, different from the 1969 album cut.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Robert Finley (musician)
Robert Finley is an American blues and soul singer- songwriter and guitarist.
After decades of performing semi-professionally followed by time away from music, Finley made a comeback in 2016.
He released his debut studio album," Age Do n't Mean a Thing", later in the year, which was met positively by critics.
Walter Robinson (composer)
Walter Robinson is an African American composer of the late 20th century.
He is most notable for his 1977 song" Harriet Tubman", which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.
He is also the composer of several operas.
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington, whose lyrics were written by Irving Mills.
It is now accepted as a jazz standard, and jazz historian Gunther Schuller characterized it as "now legendary" and "a prophetic piece and a prophetic title."
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than six decades.
Born in Washington, D.C.,
Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe.
Although widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music rather than to a musical genre such as jazz.
Some of the jazz musicians who were members of Ellington's orchestra, such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, are considered to be among the best players in the idiom.
Ellington melded them into the best-known orchestral unit in the history of jazz.
Some members stayed with the orchestra for several decades.
A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format
, Ellington wrote more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, with many of his pieces having become standards.
Ellington also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, for example Juan Tizol's "Caravan", and "Perdido", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz.
In the early 1940s, Ellington began a nearly thirty-year collaboration with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion.
With Strayhorn, he composed many extended compositions, or suites, as well as additional short pieces.
Following an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, in July 1956, Ellington and his orchestra enjoyed a major revival and embarked on world tours.
Ellington recorded for most American record companies of his era, performed in several films, scored several, and composed a handful of stage musicals.
Ellington was noted for his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and for his eloquence and charisma.
His reputation continued to rise after he died, and he was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999.
Alexandru Cristea
Alexandru Cristea( 1890 – 1942) was the composer of the music for" Limba Noastră", current national anthem of Moldova.

Question: Where did the composer of song It Don'T Mean A Thing (If It Ain'T Got That Swing) die?
Answer: New York