Miles Davis

Miles Davis

male, deceased (1991)
cool jazz, trumpet, bebop, Jazz fusion, Bebop musician, Trumpet player…Bebop 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...
Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

male, deceased (1993)
Bebop trumpeter, harmony, Improviser, musician, Jazz trumpeter, modern jazz…bebop, Bebop musician
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21 1917 - January 6 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in...
Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk

male, deceased (1982) (Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States)
Bebop pianist, death by stroke, Hard-bop pianist, buried at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, improvisation, pianist…bebop
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 - February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. Monk had a unique improvisational style and made...
Max Roach

Max Roach

male, 85 years old
Bebop drummer, bebop, hard bop, American jazz drummer, Hard-bop drummer, Post-bop drummer…Bebop musician
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (born January 10, 1924) is a bebop/hard bop percussionist, drummer, and composer. He has worked with many of the greatest jazz...
Bud Powell

Bud Powell

male, deceased (1966)
Bebop musician, Bebop pianist, Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell, American, jazz piano, jazz…bebop
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 271924 - July 311966 in New York City) was one of the most influential pianists in the history of jazz. Along...
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…bebop
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...
Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon

male, deceased (1990)
Swing saxophonist, Bebop saxophonist, Hard-bop saxophonist, jazz, bebop, Jazz composer…Bebop musician
Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, and an Academy Award-nominated actor. He is considered one of the first bebop tenor players....
Sun Ra

Sun Ra

male, deceased (1993)
Progressive big band pianist, Experimental big band pianist, poet, Experimental big band bandleader, swing music, Free improvisation pianist…bebop
Sun Ra (Born Herman Poole Blount; legal name Le Sony'r Ra; born May 22, 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama, died May 30, 1993 in Birmingham, Alabama) was...
John Scofield

John Scofield

male, 57 years old
Berklee College of Music alumni, Jazz fusion guitarist, Jazz-funk guitarist, Post-bop guitarist, from Wilton, Connecticut, Contemporary jazz musician…bebop
John Scofield (born December 26 1951 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American jazz guitarist and composer, who played and eventually collaborated with Miles...
Phil Woods

Phil Woods

male, 78 years old
Bandleader, hard bop, Stephane Grappelli, Louis Bellson, Hard-bop saxophonist, American jazz alto saxophonist…Bebop saxophonist, Bebop clarinetist, Bebop musician, bebop
Philip Wells Woods (born November 2 1931) is an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer. He also performed in...