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Composers of African descent, including African American composers, include:
- Michael Abels, USA (born 1962)
- Muhal Richard Abrams, USA (born 1930)
- Leslie Adams, USA (born 1932)
- Eleanor Alberga, Jamaica (born 1949)
- Thomas Jefferson Anderson, USA (born 1928)
- William Banfield, USA (born 1961)
- David Baker, USA (born 1931)
- Eubie Blake, USA (1883-1983)
- Anthony Braxton, USA (born 1945)
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, England (1875-1912)
- Roque Cordero, Panama (born 1917)
- Arthur Cunningham, USA (born 1928)
- William Dawson, USA (1899-1990)
- Anthony Davis, USA (born 1951)
- Robert Nathaniel Dett, USA (1882-1943)
- Julius Eastman, USA (1940-1991)
- Edward K. Duke Ellington, USA (1899-1974), jazz big band leader
- Adolphus Hailstork, USA (born 1941)
- W.C. Handy, (1873-1958), USA blues
- Talib Rasul Hakim, (1940-1988)
- Tony Jackson, (1876-1921), pianist
- Leroy Jenkins, USA (born 1932)
- Scott Joplin, USA (1868-1917)
- Ulysses Kay, USA (1917-1995)
- Roscoe Mitchell, USA (born 1940)
- Thelonious Monk, USA (1917-1982)
- Jose Nunes-Garcia, Brazil (1767-1830)
- Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, USA (born 1932)
- Walter Robinson, (b.1952)
- Hale Smith, USA (born 1925)
- William Grant Still, USA (1895-1978)
- Howard Swanson, USA (1907-1978)
- George Walker, USA (born 1922)
- Fats Waller, USA (1904-1943), singer, jazz musician
- Joseph White, Cuba (1835-1918)
- Thomas Wiggans or Blind Tom, (1849-1908)
- Clarence Williams, USA (1893-1965), publisher, jazz musician
- Olly Wilson, USA (born 1937)
- John Wesley Work III, USA (1901-1967)
