Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

male, deceased (1993)
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21 1917 - January 6 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in...
Miles Davis

Miles Davis

male, deceased (1991)
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 - September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, widely considered one of the most influential of the 20th...
Howard McGhee

Howard McGhee

male, deceased (1987)
Howard McGhee (b March 6 1918 Tulsa, OK - d July 17 1987 New York City) was one of the very first bebop jazz trumpeters, together with Dizzy...
Red Rodney

Red Rodney

male, deceased (1994)
Robert Roland Chudnick (September 27, 1927 - May 27, 1994), who performed by the stage name Red Rodney, was an American bop and hard bop trumpeter....
Fats Navarro

Fats Navarro

male, deceased (1950)
Theodore (Fats) Navarro, also nicknamed "Fat Girl", was an American jazz trumpet player. He was a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation...
Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan

male, deceased (1972)
Lee Morgan (10 July, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 19 February, 1972 in New York City) was an American hard bop trumpeter.
Clark Terry

Clark Terry

male, 88 years old
Clark Terry (born December 14, 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri), nicknamed Mumbles, is an American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the...
Art Farmer

Art Farmer

male, deceased (1999)
Arthur Stewart (Art) Farmer (August 21, 1928 - October 4, 1999), was the son of a steelworker born in Council Bluffs, Iowa who went on to become a...
Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown

male, deceased (1956)
Clifford Brown (October 30, 1930 - June 26, 1956) was an influential and highly rated American jazz trumpeter. Despite an abbreviated recording...
Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

male, 76 years old
Quincy Delightt Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and...