Jewish Musicians

This is a list of Jewish American musicians.

Band Musicians

Arranged by band name:

* 3rd Bass - MC Serch

* Aerosmith - Joey Kramer

* The Angry Samoans - Todd Homer, Gregg Turner, Bill Vockeroth

* Anthrax - Scott Ian, Dan Lilker

* Asleep at the Wheel - Ray Benson, Lucky Oceans

* Backstreet Boys - Nick Carter (unconfirmed Jewish father)

* Bad Religion - Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz, Greg Hetson

* The Bangles - Susanna Hoffs

* The Beach Boys - David Marks (half Jewish)

* Beastie Boys - Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, Adam Horovitz (Horovitz half Jewish)

* The Black Crowes - Chris & Rich Robinson (both half Jewish)

* Blondie - Chris Stein (half Jewish)

* Blood, Sweat & Tears - Al Kooper, Fred Lipsius, Randy Brecker, Jerry Weiss, Steve Katz, Bobby Colomby

* Blue Öyster Cult - Eric Bloom, Donald Roeser

* Bon Jovi - David Bryan

* The Calling - Alex Band, Aaron Kamin

* The Cars - Elliot Easton

* The Circle Jerks - Keith Clark, Greg Hetson, Lucky Lehrer, Keith Morris (half-Jewish), Zander Schloss

* Counting Crows - Adam Duritz

* Country Joe and the Fish - Joe McDonald, Barry Melton (both half Jewish)

* The Dictators - Andy Shernoff, Handsome Dick Manitoba, Ross Friedman, Scott Kempner

* Dixie Dregs - Rod Morgenstein

* The Doors - Robbie Krieger

* Dream Syndicate - Steve Wynn

* Dream Theater - Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess

* The E Street Band - Max Weinberg, Roy Bittan

* Elastica - Abby Travis

* Fates Warning - Mark Zonder

* Foo Fighters - Pat Smear (Jewish father)

* Fountains of Wayne - Adam Schlesinger

* The Fugs - Tuli Kupferberg

* Grateful Dead - Mickey Hart

* Guns N' Roses - Steven Adler

* Guster - Ryan Miller, Adam Gardner, Brian Rosenworcel

* Heartbreakers - Richard Hell

* The Hooters - Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian

* Incubus - Mike Einziger

* J. Geils Band - Peter Wolf, Stephen Bladd, Magic Dick, Seth Justman, Danny Klein

* Jane's Addiction - Eric Avery, Perry Farrell, Stephen Perkins

* Jefferson Airplane - Marty Balin, Jorma Kaukonen (both half Jewish)

* KISS - Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick

* The Last - Dave Nazworthy

* Letters to Cleo - Michael Eisenstein

* Linkin Park - Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon

* Liquid Tension Experiment - Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess

* Los Lobos - Steve Berlin

* The Mamas & the Papas - Cass Elliot

* Maroon 5 - Adam Levine

* Matchbox Twenty - Brian Yale, Adam Gaynor

* Megadeth - Marty Friedman, Dave Mustaine (half-Jewish)

* The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Joe Gittleman

* The Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman

* Moldy Peaches - Adam Green

* Morphine - Mark Sandman

* Mothers of Invention - Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman (Volman half Jewish)

* Mountain - Leslie West (also Canadian Corky Laing)

* New York Dolls - David Johansen (Jewish mother), Arthur Kane, Sylvain Sylvain

* NOFX - Fat Mike, Eric Melvin

* Patti Smith group - Lenny Kaye, Richard Sohl

* Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Mike Bloomfield

* Peter, Paul and Mary - Peter Yarrow

* Phish - Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon

* Porno for Pyros - Perry Farrell, Stephen Perkins

* Quicksilver Messenger Service - David Freiberg

* Rage Against the Machine - Brad Wilk

* The Ramones - Joey Ramone, Tommy Ramone

* The Raspberries - Eric Carmen

* Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Hillel Slovak

* Rockapella - Sean Altman

* Scissor Sisters - Babydaddy

* Simon and Garfunkel - Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel

* Sleater-Kinney - Carrie Brownstein, Janet Weiss

* Soul Coughing - Yuval Gabay

* Sparks - Ron Mael, Russell Mael

* Spin Doctors - Chris Barron, Eric Schenkman, Aaron Comess

* Steely Dan - Donald Fagen

* The Strokes - Nick Valensi

* Television - Richard Hell, Tom Verlaine (Verlaine half-Jewish)

* Tenacious D - Jack Black

* Toad the Wet Sprocket - Glen Phillips

* Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Howie Epstein, Sam Lynch

* The Turtles - Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman (Volman half Jewish)

* Twisted Sister - Dee Snider, Jay Jay French (Snider Jewish father)

* The United States of America - Dorothy Moskowitz

* Van Halen - David Lee Roth

* Velvet Underground - Lou Reed

* Veruca Salt - Nina Gordon, Jim Shapiro

* The Voidoids - Richard Hell

* The Wallflowers - Jakob Dylan, Rami Jaffe, Greg Richling

* Was (Not Was) - David Was, Don Was

* The Weavers - Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman

* Ween - Gene Ween

* Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Brian Chase

* Yo La Tengo - Ira Kaplan

* Youth Brigade - Adam Stern, Mark Stern, Shawn Stern

Classical

* Larry Adler, harmonica player

* Vladimir Ashkenazi, pianist (Jewish father)

* Joshua Bell, violinist (Jewish mother)

* Yefim Bronfman, pianist

* Antal Dorati, conductor

* Mischa Elman, violinist

* Arthur Fiedler, conductor

* Leon Fleisher, pianist

* Jascha Heifetz, violinist

* Vladimir Horowitz, pianist

* Byron Janis, pianist

* Otto Klemperer, conductor

* Fritz Kreisler, violinist (Jewish father)

* Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist

* James Levine, conductor

* George London, baritone

* William Kapell, pianist

* Lorin Maazel, conductor

* Yehudi Menuhin, violinist

* Nathan Milstein, violinist

* Pierre Monteux, conductor

* Eugene Ormandy, conductor

* Murray Perahia, pianist

* André Previn, conductor

* Fritz Reiner, conductor

* Leonard Rose, cellist

* Arthur Rubinstein, pianist

* Beverly Sills, soprano

* Leonard Slatkin, conductor

* Janos Starker, cellist

* Isaac Stern, violinist

* George Szell, conductor

* Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

* Rosalyn Tureck, harpsichordist

* Bertram Turetzky, contrabassist

* Bruno Walter, conductor

* Paul Wittgenstein, pianist

Classical Composers

* Milton Babbitt, composer

* Arthur Berger, composer

* Leonard Bernstein, composer

* Marc Blitzstein, composer

* Ernest Bloch, composer

* Henry Brant, composer

* Aaron Copland, composer

* Richard Danielpour, composer

* Mario Davidovsky, composer

* David Diamond, composer

* Jacob Druckman, composer

* Morton Feldman, composer

* Lukas Foss, composer

* Philip Glass, composer

* Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer (Jewish father)

* Morton Gould, composer

* Aaron Jay Kernis, composer

* Leon Kirchner, composer

* Leo Ornstein, composer

* George Perle, composer

* Shulamit Ran, composer

* Steve Reich, composer

* George Rochberg, composer

* Arnold Schoenberg, composer

* William Schuman, composer

* Ernst Toch, composer

Film Composers

* Elmer Bernstein, film composer

* Danny Elfman, film composer

* Elliot Goldenthal, film composer

* Jerry Goldsmith, film composer

* Bernard Herrmann, film composer

* James Horner, film composer

* Michael Kamen, film composer

* Erich Wolfgang Korngold, film composer

* Alfred Newman, film composer

* Thomas Newman, film composer (Jewish father)

* Alex North, film composer

* David Raksin, film composer

* Leonard Rosenman, film composer

* Marc Shaiman, film composer

* Max Steiner, film composer

* Dimitri Tiomkin, film composer

* Franz Waxman, film composer

* Victor Young, film composer

Jazz and Blues

* Joey Baron, jazz drummer

* Jay Beckenstein, Dave Samuels, members of Spyro Gyra

* Bob Berg, jazz saxophonist

* Jane Ira Bloom, jazz saxophonist

* Michael Brecker, jazz saxophonist

* Randy Brecker, jazz trumpeter

* Bob Brozman, blues musician

* Uri Caine, jazz pianist

* Popa Chubby, blues singer

* Peter Cincotti, jazz pianist, singer (Jewish mother)

* Harry Connick, Jr., jazz pianist, singer (Jewish mother)

* Eddie Daniels, jazz clarinetist

* Bela Fleck, bluegrass musician

* Dave Frishberg, jazz pianist, singer/songwriter

* Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist

* Benny Goodman, jazz clarinetist

* David Grisman, bluegrass musician

* Fred Hersch, jazz pianist

* Lee Konitz, jazz saxophonist

* Steve Lacy, jazz saxophonist

* Mark Levine, jazz pianist, valve trombonist, teacher

* Mike Mainieri, jazz vibraphonist

* Herbie Mann, jazz flautist

* Shelly Manne, jazz drummer

* Mezz Mezzrow, jazz clarinetist

* Alan Paul, Janis Siegel, members of The Manhattan Transfer

* Joshua Redman, jazz saxophonist (Jewish mother)

* Buddy Rich, jazz drummer (Jewish father)

* Red Rodney, jazz trumpeter

* Raymond Scott, jazz musician & inventor

* Willie "The Lion" Smith, jazz pianist

* Artie Shaw, jazz clarinetist

* Ben Sidran, jazz pianist & producer

* Mel Torme, jazz singer

* John Zorn, jazz saxophonist

* Stephen Sondheim, composer & lyricist

* Charles Strouse & Lee Adams, composer & lyricist

* Jule Styne, composer

* Kurt Weill, composer

* Maury Yeston, composer & lyricist

Musicals Writers

* Richard Adler & Jerry Ross, composer & lyricist

* Lynn Ahrens, lyricist

* Harold Arlen, composer

* Irving Berlin, composer & lyricist

* Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick, composer & lyricist

* Jason Robert Brown, composer & lyricist

* Sammy Cahn, lyricist

* Cy Coleman, composer

* Betty Comden & Adolph Green, lyricists

* Dorothy Fields, composer

* William Finn, composer & lyricist

* Rudolf Friml, operetta composer

* George & Ira Gershwin, composer & lyricist

* Marvin Hamlisch, composer

* Oscar Hammerstein, lyricist

* Yip Harburg, lyricist

* Lorenz Hart, lyricist

* Jerry Herman, composer & lyricist

* Jerome Kern, composer

* John Kander & Fred Ebb, composer & lyricist

* Burton Lane, composer

* Jonathan Larson, composer & lyricist

* Carolyn Leigh, lyricist

* Mitch Leigh, composer