Miles Davis

Miles Davis

male, deceased (1991)
cool jazz, trumpet, bebop, Jazz fusion, Bebop musician, Trumpet player…Jazz trumpeter, musician, Jazz trumpet player, Jazz composer, Cool jazz trumpeter
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)
musician, African American, American, jazz, Dixieland trumpeter, Swing trumpeter…New Orleans jazz musician, American jazz cornetist, American jazz trumpeter, Musician of New Orleans, Jazz trumpeter
Louis Armstrong (4 August, 1901 - July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo and Pops, was an American jazz musician. Armstrong was a charismatic, innovative...
John Coltrane

John Coltrane

male, deceased (1967)
Jazz saxophonist, musician, American jazz bandleader, Hard-bop saxophonist, American jazz saxophonist, Avant-garde saxophonist…American jazz tenor saxophonist, Free jazz saxophonist, jazzmusician, Jazz tenor saxophonist, jazz
John William Coltrane, nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Although recordings of his work from as early as 1946 exist,...
Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker

male, deceased (1955)
musician, Jazz alto saxophonist, birdland, jazz, Bebop saxophonist, saxophonist…Jazz composer, jazzmusician, Bebop musician, Jazz 'Round Midnight, jazz festival
Charles "Bird" Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 - March 12, 1955) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Early in his career Parker was dubbed...
Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

male, deceased (1993)
Bebop trumpeter, harmony, Improviser, musician, Jazz trumpeter, modern jazz…Bebop musician, Afro-Cuban jazz trumpeter, Afro-Cuban jazz composer, Vocal jazz musician, Latin jazz composer
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
Grammy Award winner, American classical trumpeter, American jazz trumpeter, Juilliard School of Music alumni, Louisiana Creole, New Orleans jazz musician…Neo-bop jazz musician, Post-bop jazz musician, Jazz at Lincoln Center, To a Young Jazz Musician, jazzmusician
Jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, advocate for the arts, and educator, Wynton Marsalis has helped propel jazz to the forefront of...
Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

female, deceased (1996)
jazz singer, Swing singer, Women in jazz, Lady Ella, Vocal, singer…jazz, jazz royalty, jazzmusician
Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996), also known as "Lady Ella" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most...
Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins

male, 79 years old
Bebop saxophonist, Hard-bop saxophonist, musician, jazz, piano, American…Jazz tenor saxophonist, Bebop musician, jazzmusician, Jazz saxophonist
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7 1930 in New York City) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Sonny Rollins has had a long,...
Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

male, deceased (1986)
swing, Lets Dance, Benny Goodman Band, Begin the Beguine, When smoke gets in Your Eyes, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra…American jazz clarinetist, jazz, Jazz bandleader, Chicago musician, jazzmusician
Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David Goodman, (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) was an American jazz musician, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of...
Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman

male, 79 years old
Free jazz musician, pulitzer prize, From Fort Worth, Texas, composer, Pulitzer Prize for Music winner, Avant-garde jazz musician…Free funk musician, Jazz alto saxophonist, free jazz, jazzmusician, Jazz violinist
Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the...