List of jazz percussionists

This is an alphabetized list of notable musicians who play or played percussion, excluding keyboard percussion. Only add names here if the person has their own article on Wikipedia, please.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

Contents: 

• Top
• 0–9
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

A

• Alex Acuña
• Don Alias^[1]

B

• Lekan Babalola
• Cyro Baptista^[1]
• Ray Barretto^[1]
• Steve Berrios
• Anthony Brown

C

• Buck Clarke
• Candido Camero^[1]
• Lenny Castro
• Mino Cinelu^[1]
• Paulinho da Costa

D

• Rubem Dantas
• Roger Dawson
• Xavier Desandre Navarre

F

• Sammy Figueroa
• David Friedman

G

• Sameer Gupta
• Trilok Gurtu^[1]

H

• Giovanni Hidalgo^[1]
• Zakir Hussain^[1]

J

• Kevin Jones

M

• Airto Moreira^[1]
• Jamie Muir

N

• Andy Narell

P

• Armando Peraza^[1]
• Chano Pozo^[1]
• Tito Puente^[1]

R

• Badal Roy^[1]

S

• Poncho Sánchez^[1]
• Mongo Santamaría^[1]
• Arturo Stable

T

• Okay Temiz^[1]
• Robert Thomas, Jr.
• Arto Tunçboyacıyan^[1]

V

• Tony Vacca
• Carlos "Patato" Valdes^[1]