The Bronx's evolution from a hot bed of Latin jazz to an incubator of hip hop was the subject of an award-winning documentary, produced by City Lore and broadcast on PBS in 2006, " From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale ".

* 1935 – Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist ( d. 2006 )

** Anita O ' Day, American jazz singer ( d. 2006 )

** Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter ( d. 2006 )

* December 17 – Walter Booker, American jazz bassist ( d. 2006 )

Subsequently, in 2006, a posthumous " Special Citation " was given to jazz composer Thelonious Monk, and in 2007 the prize went to Ornette Coleman, a free jazz composer.

* Don Lusher ( 1923 – 2006 ), trombonist and jazz band leader

* Dewey Redman ( 1931 – 2006 ), American jazz saxophonist

The Tehachapi Pops Orchestra, founded in 2006 by Deborah Hand, plays an eclectic blend of popular and jazz music, as well as original compositions.

* William P. Gottlieb ( 1917 – 2006 ), jazz musician and photographer.

In the 1970s and 1980s the American jazz musician Gerald Oshita ( based in Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area and associated with Roscoe Mitchell ) played avant-garde jazz on an EE ♭ contrabass manufactured by Conn. More recently ( 1990 – 2006 ), recordings using sarrusophone have been released by saxophonists Scott Robinson, Lenny Pickett, James Carter, and Paul Winter.

The 2006 album by the jazz group Acoustic Ladyland, Skinny Grin, features one of his works, Portrait of The Dancer Alexander Sacharoff, as its cover art.

" Dust in the Wind " has been covered by: Sarah Brightman, Scorpions ( Acoustica ), Christian artists Acappella and Billy Smiley, former New York Yankees center fielder and jazz guitarist Bernie Williams ( The Journey Within ), and ex-Kansas lead singer John Elefante ( 2006 ).

* May 4-Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpeter ( d. 2006 )

* January 4-Don Butterfield, classical and jazz tuba player ( d. 2006 )

In 2006, the singer Christina Aguilera released her studio album " Back to Basics " when she mixed several different styles including swing, jazz and blues.

* Blue ( Diana Ross album ), a soul / jazz album by Diana Ross released in 2006

In April 2006, Arturo Sandoval opened a jazz venue in Miami Beach, The Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club.

On September 26, 2006 he released Out Louder, his second collaborative effort album with avant garde jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood.

John Lenwood ( Jackie ) McLean ( May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006 ) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, educator, and is a member of the DownBeat Hall of Fame, born in New York City.

Komunyakaa at the 2006 Brooklyn Book Festival. His collection Copacetic fuses jazz rhythms and syncopation with hip colloquialism and the unique, arresting poetic imagery which has since become his trademark.

* Forecast: Tomorrow, 2006 compilation album by the jazz group Weather Report

On November 21, 2006, saxophonist Dave Koz released a followup to the earlier smooth jazz GRP tribute album, this time on his own Rendezvous Entertainment label, an album called Forever, For Always, For Luther Volume II, also produced by Rex Rideout and Bud Harner.

* 1946 – Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1928 – Joyce Hatto, English pianist ( d. 2006 )

* Clermont Pépin ( 1926 – 2006 ), a Canadian pianist, composer and teacher

Vaucher's film Gower Boy, made in collaboration with pianist Huw Warren, debuted at the 14th Raindance Film Festival in London in October 2006 .< ref >

* Olga Gorelli ( 1920 – 2006 ), composer and pianist.

* Clive Lythgoe ( 1927 – 2006 ), classical pianist.

In 2006 he performed with pianist Alan Pasqua, Wackerman and bassist Jimmy Haslip as part of a live tribute act in honour of the late Tony Williams ; a DVD ( Live at Yoshi's ) and double album ( Blues for Tony ) of this tour were released in 2007 and 2009, respectively.

* Karl Engel ( 1923 – 2006 ), Swiss pianist

Among such pianists are Marc-André Hamelin, who recorded the entire set and garnered a number of prestigious awards, and Francesco Libetta, who performed the complete set in concert ( the only pianist to do so from memory ) and made a video recording of the set ( live in Milan, March 2006 ).

* 18 February-Rolande Falcinelli, organist, pianist and composer ( died 2006 ).

* Gary Graffman ( 1986 – 2006 ) — pianist, continues on the piano faculty

* Joyce Hatto ( 1928 – 2006 ), faux English pianist

* Jack Wilson ( pianist ) ( 1907 – 2006 ), British jazz pianist from Warwickshire, England

* Bill Miller ( pianist ) ( 1915 – 2006 ), close collaborator with Frank Sinatra

USA on 1 February 2007 ); Sonata for Organ ( premiered by Robert Green at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales on 22 August 2007 ); the opera, Far from the Madding Crowd, premièred at the Thomas Hardy Festival in July 2006 ; Mass for Unaccompanied Solo Voice, premiered by soprano Paula Downes at the MIT Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA on 6 March 2008 ; Sonata for Horn, Violin and Piano for the Brahms Trio Prague ( Monica Vrabcová, violin ; Ondrej Vrabec, Horn Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniel Wiesner, piano ), premiered at the Suk Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague on 5 February 2008 ( a CD of this work has now been released on the Czech Philharmonic Artesmon label ); Finished Fields, a setting of four poems by Wilfred Owen commissioned by Jonathan Pugsley ( bass-baritone ) and Duncan Honeybourne ( piano ) and premiered in Weymouth, Dorset on 12 November 2008 ; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra for pianist Duncan Honeybourne and the Central England Ensemble, conducted by Anthony Bradbury in Birmingham Town Hall on 1 March 2009, and given again by the same artists in Coventry Cathedral in July 2010 ; Sonata for Contrabass Flute and Piano for Peter Sheridan, premiered in 2009 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ; and Sonata for Clarinet and Piano for clarinettist Angus Merion and Duncan Honeybourne, premiered in Salisbury, UK in January 2010.

This concert followed an August 26, 2006 concert Manami Kiyota x Kenji Ito Collaboration Live in which he played the piano for songs composed by him for the event and sung by Manami Kiyota ; he has also played the piano at concerts given by The Black Mages, a band composed of current or former Square musicians, before they expanded to include a full-time pianist.

As of 2010, Willie Sotelo, who joined the group in 2006 as pianist, has become the band's de facto musical director on tours, with Ithier conducting the group and playing occasionally in select live performances.

Tore Ingvar Uppström ( born 8 December 1937 in Stockholm, died 8 June 2006 ) was a Swedish pianist, composer and author.

In 2006, Louisa assumed the role of the radical pianist Harriet Cohen in Dearest Tania scripted by Duncan Honeybourne.

* Billy Childs, Class of 1975, jazz pianist and two-time Grammy winner in 2006.

Recent leaders of the school include violinist Roman Totenberg, Director from 1978 to 1985, pianist Victor Rosenbaum, Director from 1985 to 2001, and Kwang-Wu Kim, President from 2001 to 2006.

In 2006, pianist Rob Mullins covered the song from his standards album Standards & More.

For example, a series of performances of Ástor Piazzolla's tango opera during the 2004 – 2006 season featured Uruguayan pianist and conductor Pablo Zinger, Russian bandoneonist Alexander Mitenev, Venezuelan tenor Leonardo Granadas, Argentine tango vocalist Katie Viquiera, Slovene accordionist Borut Zagoranski, and Welsh guitarist Michael Partington.