Celebrating legends and icons in jazz composition and arranging

Every other year ISJAC has the great honor of inducting several groundbreaking and highly influential composers into our Hall of Fame. ISJAC members and our board of directors vote for our Hall of Fame inductees out of a roster of luminary candidates. In celebration of their lifetime of achievements and contributions to jazz composition/arranging, we will be inducting the 2026 class next May at the Jazz Composers Summit at the University of Northern Colorado.

John Coltrane, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Maria Schneider, Oliver Nelson & Pat Metheny

Quincy Jones, Horace Silver & Bob Brookmeyer

Bill Holman, Billy Strayhorn, Charles Mingus, Gil Evans & Herbie Hancock

Carla Bley, Thad Jones, Thelonious Monk & Wayne Shorter

Chick Corea, Duke Ellington & Mary Lou Williams

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