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...
Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

male, deceased (1971)
Louis Armstrong (4 August, 1901 - July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo and Pops, was an American jazz musician. Armstrong was a charismatic, innovative...
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...
Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

male, 48 years old
Jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, advocate for the arts, and educator, Wynton Marsalis has helped propel jazz to the forefront of...
Maynard Ferguson

Maynard Ferguson

male, deceased (2006)
Walter "Maynard" Ferguson was a Canadian jazz trumpet player and bandleader. He came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before...
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...
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...

Dave Douglas

male, 46 years old
Dave Douglas (born March 24, 1963) is a U.S. jazz trumpeter and composer whose music is notable for drawing on many non-jazz musical styles,...
Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert

male, 74 years old (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as...
Doc Severinsen

Doc Severinsen

male, 82 years old
Doc Severinsen has been the principal pops conductor for The Phoenix Symphony since 1983.