Blind Jazz Musicians:

Henry Butler

Henry Butler (born September 21, 1949) is an American jazz pianist.

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John William Boone

John William 'Blind' Boone (May 17, 1864 - October 4, 1927) was an American pianist and composer of ragtime music..

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Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson (born February 26, 1926 in Chicago - died February 4, 2008 in Manhattan, NYC) is a jazz pianist who might be best known as an influence on Herbie Hancock.

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Rahsaan Roland Kirk (August 7, 1936 - December 5, 1977) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, playing tenor saxophone, flute and other reed instruments

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Moondog

Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin) (May 26, 1916–September 8, 1999), a blind American composer, musician, cosmologist, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments.

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Corinna May

Corinna May (born 10 October 1970 in Bremen, Germany as Corinna Meyer) is a blind singer from Germany.

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Manfredo Fest

Manfredo Irmin Fest (May 13, 1936 - October 8, 1999) was a legally blind bossa nova and jazz pianist and keyboardist from Brazil.

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Lance Hayward

Lance Hayward, a jazz pianist, was born in Bermuda in 1916, where he lived until he moved to New York City at the age of 50.

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Diane Schuur

Diane Schuur (b. December 10, 1953 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American jazz singer and pianist.

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George Shearing

Sir George Shearing, OBE (August 13, 1919 – February 14, 2011) was an Anglo-American jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records.

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Art Tatum

Arthur "Art" Tatum, Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso who played with phenomenal facility despite being nearly blind.

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Lennie Tristano

Leonard Joseph Tristano (19 March 1919 – 18 November 1978) was a jazz pianist, composer and teacher of jazz improvisation.

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