List of Avant-garde Artists - Avant Garde: Jazz, Composers, Performance Artists

Avant Garde: Jazz, Composers, Performance Artists

• Frank Sidebottom (English artist and comedian)
• Laurie Anderson (American composer)
• George Antheil (American composer)
• Albert Ayler (Free jazz)
• John Balance (Music Composer, poet)
• Luciano Berio (Italian composer)
• Arthur Brown (English rock singer and performer)
• Pierre Boulez (French composer)
• Glenn Branca (American guitarist and composer)
• John Zorn (American musician and composer)
• Harold Budd (American composer)
• John Cage (American composer)
• Les Claypool (American musician, singer, bassist, film maker, novelist, composer)
• Ornette Coleman (American jazz musician)
• John Coltrane (American jazz musician)
• Tony Conrad (American violinist and composer)
• Ivor Cutler (Scottish avant-musician and poet)
• Miles Davis (American jazz musician)
• Claude Debussy (French composer)
• Eric Dolphy (American jazz musician)
• Duke Ellington (American jazz musician, band leader and composer)
• Don Ellis (American jazz musician, band leader and composer)
• Brian Eno (English musician and composer)
• Morton Feldman (American composer)
• Aaron Funk (Canadian electronic musician)
• Diamanda Galás (American Musician, composer and performance artist)
• Philip Glass (American composer)
• Dave Holland (British jazz musician)
• Daryl Hayott (American Jazz Musician/Composer)
• Charles Ives (American composer)
• Roland Kirk (American jazz musician)
• Bill Laswell (Avant-Garde musician)
• György Ligeti (Hungarian/Austrian/Romanian composer)
• Witold Lutosławski (Polish composer)
• Lydia Lunch (American singer, poet, writer and actress)
• Angus MacLise (American percussionist)
• Charles Mingus (American jazz musician)
• Thelonious Monk (American jazz musician)
• Max Neuhaus (composer)
• Mike Oldfield (English composer)
• Pauline Oliveros (American composer and accordionist)
• Yoko Ono (Japanese artist and musician)
• Harry Partch (American composer and instrument designer)
• Mike Patton (American musician, singer and composer)
• Krzysztof Penderecki (Polish composer)
• Ástor Piazzolla (Argentine Nuevo Tango pioneer)
• Sun Ra (Free jazz innovator)
• Steve Reich (American composer)
• Terry Riley (American composer)
• Arthur Russell (American musician, singer and composer)
• Pharoah Sanders (American jazz musician)
• Erik Satie (French composer and pianist)
• Pierre Schaeffer (French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician)
• Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian/American composer)
• Archie Shepp (American jazz musician)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen (German composer)
• Igor Stravinsky (Russian composer)
• David Tudor (American composer)
• Arto Tunçboyacıyan (Armenian vocalist, multiinstrumentalist)
• Edgard Varèse (French composer, later naturalized American citizen)
• David Vorhaus (American electronic composer)
• Igor Wakhevitch (French composer)
• Anton Webern (Second Viennese School)
• Robert Wyatt (English singer and songwriter)
• Iannis Xenakis (Greek composer and architect)
• La Monte Young (American composer)
• Frank Zappa (American composer, guitarist and satirist)