JLW was released in 1994, featuring guests such as James Cotton, Branford Marsalis, and the Tower Of Power horn section.

Although a winning work was supposed to have had its first performance during that year, Marsalis ' piece premiered on April 1, 1994 and its recording, released on Columbia Records, was dated 1995.

* Jake T. Austin ( born 1994 ), American actor

* 1916 – Martha Raye, American actress ( d. 1994 )

* 1940 – Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist ( Last Exit ) ( d. 1994 )

* 1994 – Forrest Landis, American actor

With the 1994 passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the following words were used to label the United States Section of that organization: in French, étatsunien ; in Spanish, estadounidense.

* 1927 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player ( d. 1994 )

* 1951 – Randy Shilts, American journalist and author ( d. 1994 )

* 1910 – Berton Roueché, American writer ( d. 1994 )

* 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer ( d. 1994 )

* 1994 – Liliana Mumy, American actress

* 1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet ( d. 1994 )

* 1933 – Stuart Roosa, American astronaut ( d. 1994 )

* 1994 – Jacqueline Emerson, American actress and singer ( Devo 2. 0 )

* 1994 – Josh Flitter, American actor

* 1917 – Jack Kirby, American writer and illustrator ( d. 1994 )

* 1967 – Dominic Lucero, American actor, singer, and dancer ( d. 1994 )

* 1912 – Barry Sullivan, American actor ( d. 1994 )

* 1949 – Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian ( d. 1994 )

* 1994 – Moises Arias, American actor

* 1924 – Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician and arranger ( d. 1994 )

* 1994 – Skyler Samuels, American actress

Two years before their first opening day, Colangelo hired Buck Showalter, the American League Manager of the Year in 1994 with the New York Yankees.

* 1900 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist ( d. 1994 )

* 1930 – Dick Sargent, American actor ( d. 1994 )

* 1913 – Noah Beery, Jr., American actor ( d. 1994 )

The identity of the trumpeter was not public knowledge until 1994, when jazz musician and journalist Ron Simmonds revealed that it was the Surrey musician Ronnie Hunt.

Connick took his funk music on a tour of the United Kingdom in 1994, an effort that did not please some of his fans, who were expecting a jazz crooner.

* 1929 – Joe Pass, American jazz guitarist ( d. 1994 )

* April 8 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer ( d. 1994 )

Crumb has frequently drawn comics about his musical interests in blues, country, bluegrass, cajun, French Bal-musette, jazz, big band and swing music from the 1920s and 30's, and they also heavily influenced the soundtrack choices for his band mate Zwigoff's 1994 Crumb documentary.

Not as well received as his earlier work in the field of jazz was a 1994 album for LaserLight titled Michel Plays Legrand.

Cabell " Cab " Calloway III ( December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994 ) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.

* December 25 – Cab Calloway, US jazz singer and band leader ( died 1994 )

The album won James her first Grammy Award for best jazz vocal performance in 1994.

During 1994, jazz bassist Mark Dresser led pianist Denman Maroney and trumpeter Dave Douglas in his compositions for the film, which they performed live at the Knitting Factory and released on CD in 1994.

U. S. News and World Report, in its annual America's Best Graduate Schools, ranked the jazz studies program as the best in the country every year from 1994, when it began ranking graduate jazz programs, to 1997, when it retired the category .< ref >< u > US News and World Report </ u ></ ref > The One O ' Clock Lab Band has been nominated for 6 Grammy Awards.

However, jazz had been added to the palette of hip hop producers, and its influence continued throughout the 1990s whether behind the gritty street-tales of Nas ( Illmatic, Columbia, 1994 ), or backing the more bohemian sensibilities of acts such as The Roots and Common Sense.

Trumpeter Jon Hassell's 1994 album Dressing For Pleasure — a dense mesh of funky trip hop and jazz — features several songs with the sound of skipping CDs layered into the mix.

* Aquatic ( album ), 1994 album by the Australian experimental jazz trio, The Necks

In 1994, Ahmed joined the acid jazz group, The Jazzhole.

In 1994, Freddie, collaborating with Chicago jazz vocalist / co-writer Catherine Whitney, had lyrics set to the music of First Light.

Pat Metheny has also joined projects such as Song X with Ornette Coleman ; Parallel Realities ; and Jazz Baltica, with Ulf Wakenius and other Nordic jazz players like E. S. T., Nils Landgren and has played with unique singers from all over the world, such as Silje Nergaard on Tell Me Where You're Going ( 1990 ), Bruce Hornsby on Harbor Lights ( 1993 ) and Hot House ( 1995 ), Noa on Noa ( 1994 ), Abbey Lincoln on A Turtle's Dream ( 1994 ) and Anna Maria Jopek on Upojenie ( 2002 ).

In 1994 the pillows changed to King Records and with Ueda no longer in the band to combat Sawao's eccentric diversity and rapidly changing musical interests, the pillows ' style started drifting away from their style of eclectic pop rock, and the band wildly experimented between varying genres ; during this time, the band's style of music could best be described as jazz, but with the ever-present sixties pop rock influence.

* Joe Pass ( 1929 – 1994 ), jazz musician

In 1994, Lewis appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, alongside other prominent jazz artists, Herbie Hancock and Roy Ayers.