If you wish to be generally familiar with jazz music, here are some people you should know:
Name |
Birth |
Death |
Instrument |
Style |
Representative Pieces |
1930 | 1986 | Baritone Saxophone | Big Band, Hard Bop | Reflectory Bossallegro |
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1904 | 1984 | Piano | Swing, Big Band | One O'Clock Jump April in Paris |
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1903 | 1931 | Cornet | Dixieland | In a Mist For No Reason at All in C |
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1887 | 1983 | Piano | Ragtime | I'm Just Wild about Harry Charleston Rag |
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1912 | 2001 | Clarinet, Alto Saxophone | Big Band | Sentimental Journey I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm |
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1920 | 2012 | Piano | Cool Jazz | Take Five In Your Own Sweet Way Blue Rondo A La Turk |
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1907 | 1994 | Singer | Blues | Minnie the Moocher The Jumpin' Jive |
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1907 | 2003 | Alto Saxophone, Trumpet | Big Band, Swing | Crazy Rhythm Honeysuckle Rose |
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1930 | Alto Saxophone | Free Jazz | Free Jazz Lonely Woman |
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1926 | 1967 | Tenor Saxophone | Hard Bop, Free Jazz | My Favorite Things Giant Steps |
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1904 |
1957 |
Clarinet, Alto Saxophone | Big Band, Swing, Dixieland | I'm Glad There Is You So Many Times |
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1905 |
1956 |
Trombone | Big Band, Swing | Indian Summer I'll Never Smile Again |
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1899 |
1974 |
Piano |
Big Band, Swing |
It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that Swing Mood Indigo Satin Doll |
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1917 |
1993 |
Trumpet |
Bebop, Afro-Cuban |
A Night in Tunisia Salt Peanuts |
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1909 |
1986 |
Clarinet |
Big Band, Swing |
Sing, Sing, Sing Stompin' at the Savoy |
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1908 |
2002 |
Vibraphone |
Swing, Blues |
On the Sunny Side of the Street Flying Home |
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1904 |
1969 |
Tenor Saxophone |
Bebop, Swing |
Body and Soul | |
1913 | 1987 |
Clarinet |
Swing, Blues, Cool Jazz | Woodchopper's Ball Four Brothers |
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1922 |
1999 |
Trumpet | Swing, Dixieland |
The Green Hornet |
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1906 |
1970 |
Alto Saxophone | Swing, Big Band |
Passion Flower |
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1916 | 1983 | Trumpet | Big Band, Swing | You Made Me Love You | |
1925 | Guitar | Blues, R&B | The Thrill Is Gone Sweet Little Angel |
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1904 | 1944 | Trombone | Big Band, Swing | In the Mood Moonlight Serenade Chattanooga Choo-Choo |
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1922 | 1979 | Double Bass | Hard Bop | Better Git it in Your Soul Moanin' |
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1917 | 1982 | Piano | Bebop, Hard Bop | Round Midnight Blue Monk |
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1927 | 1996 | Baritone Saxophone | Cool Jazz | Bernie's Tune Walkin' Shoes |
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1920 | 1955 | Alto Saxophone | Bebop | Yardbird Suite | |
~1914 | 1989 | Tenor Saxophone | Swing | Paxonia All of Me |
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1930 | Tenor Saxohpone | Hard Bop | Doxy St. Thomas |
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1915 |
1967 |
Piano |
Swing, Mainstream |
Take the "A" Train Lush Life |
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1940 | Flute, Tenor Saxophone | Big Band, Bebop | I'll Be Seeing You Tanuki's Night Out |
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1913 | 1983 | Guitar | Blues | Rollin' Stone Hoochie Coochie Man |
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1890 |
1967 |
Violin |
Symphonic Jazz |
Rhapsody in Blue Wang Wang Blues |
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1909 | 1959 | Tenor Saxophone | Swing, Bebop | Lester Leaps In Tickle Toe |