ISJAC HALL OF FAME

The ISJAC Hall of Fame seeks to honor and immortalize those jazz composers and/or arrangers whose body of work has advanced the art form and profoundly impacted the profession. Selected by the virtue of their artistic excellence, unique voice, historical significance and influence on future generations of composers, honorees have been inducted since 2017, and this year we will be celebrating this year’s honorees at our ISJAC Honors Celebration at Dizzy’s Club in September.

2025

  • Pat Metheny

  • Oliver Nelson

  • Antonio Jarlos Jobim

  • John Coltrane

  • Maria Schneider

ISJAC HALL OF FAME 2017-2024

  • Carla Bley

  • Bill Holman

  • Bob Brookmeyer

  • Thad Jones

  • Gil Evans

  • Herbie Hancock

  • Horace Silver

  • Charles Mingus

  • Ornette Coleman

  • Wayne Shorter

  • Benny Golson

  • Quincy Jones

  • Thelonious Monk

  • Kenny Wheeler