Musicians known for circular breathing
Some musicians who do not play the instruments mentioned above are known for using circular breathing.
* Michael Sadler – North Carolina resident, multi-instrumentalist
* Daniel Goode – avant-garde clarinetist
* Jeff Coffin – jazz musician best known as a saxophonist but also plays clarinet and flute. Is a member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
* Rahsaan Roland Kirk – jazz multi-instrumentalist
* Roscoe Mitchell – jazz multi-instrumentalist
* David Murray – Plays tenor saxophone and, on occasion, bass clarinet
* James Carter – saxophonist, flutist, and bass clarinetist
* Irvin Mayfield – Grammy Award-nominated jazz trumpeter, composer and cultural ambassador to New Orleans
* Akikazu Nakamura – shakuhachi player
* Evan Parker – saxophone player
* Lenny Pickett – saxophone player with the 1970s funk band Tower of Power and SNL band
* Pharoah Sanders – tenor saxophonist
* Kenny G – American jazz saxophonist
* Rudy Wooten – saxophonist, Wooten Brothers Band
* John Surman – baritone and soprano saxophonist
* Jimmy Owens – trumpet player
* John Zorn – avant-garde saxophonist and composer
* Peter Zummo – avant-garde trombonist
* Femi Kuti – Afrobeat and jazz saxophonist
* Mark Pender – jazz trumpeter
* The late Cynthia Steljes, oboist for the Canadian classical group Quartetto Gelato
* Wynton Marsalis – classical and jazz trumpeter
* Ferhat Erdem – kaval and sipsi player at the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
* Dan Regan – trombonist in the ska punk band, Reel Big Fish
* Flavio Celkevicius – Brazilian saxophonist
* Harry Carney - baritone saxophonist with Duke Ellington's Orchestra
* Paul Hanson - American jazz bassoonist