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Information About Jazz Musicians and Composers

This is a short list of musicians (alphabetical) and some of their compositions or recordings.
 
Picture
Musician Info
Louis Armstrong 1901-1971
Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong / 1901-1971
Hot Five and Hot Seven Bands

West End Blues, Potato Head Blues
Cornet Chop Suey, Weather Bird
Heebie Jeebies, Struttin' With Some Barbecue
What a Wonderful World
Born in New Orleans
Nickname - Satchmo
Scat - a vocal style using wordless syllables
Count Basie
William 'Count' Basie / 1904-1984
One O'Clock Jump
Jumpin' at the Woodside
Good Morning Blues
Swingin' the Blues
Sidney Bechet 1897-1959
Sidney Bechet / 1897-1959
Sweetie Dear, Blues in the Air
Summertime, Shag, Petite Fleur

Recordings - Blue Horizon, What Is This Thing Called Love
Bix Beiderbecke 1903-1931
Leon 'Bix' Beiderbecke / 1903-1931
Singing the Blues, I'm Coming Virginia
At the Jazz Band Ball, Davenport Blues
Bix Beiderbecke Story, In a Mist
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck / 1920-2012
Blue Rondo a la Turk, In Your Own Sweet Way
Take Five, Unsquare Dance

His band was known for their use of odd meters in music, such as in Take Five.
Ray Charles
Ray Charles / 1930-2004
Hit the Road Jack
Georgia On My Mind
John Coltrane
John Coltrane / 1926-1967
Giant Steps
Countdown
Impressions
Miles Davis
Miles Davis / 1926-1991
So What, All Blues
Freddie the Freeloader, Four
Milestones
Famous for trumpet playing ability.
Jimmy Dorsey 1904-1957
Jimmy Dorsey / 1904-1957
Famous Band Leader, The Complete Standard

Transcriptions - Tangerine, In a Little Spanish Town
Green Eyes, Out of Nowhere, Beebe
Praying the Blues
Tommy Dorsey 1905-1956
Tommy Dorsey / 1905-1956
Famous Band Leader,
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Stop Look and Listen
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, and many others featuring Frank Sinatra and other singers.
Duke Ellington 1899-1974
Edward 'Duke' Ellington / 1899-1974
Nickname - 'Duke'
Theme Song - Take The 'A' Train
Sophisticated Lady, In A Sentimental Mood
It Don't Mean a Thing, I Got it Bad
Satin Doll, Prelude to a Kiss, Mood Indigo
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald / 1918-1996
Known as the "First Lady of Song"
One of greatest female jazz vocalists of 20th Century
A-Tisket A-Tasket
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie / 1917-1993
One of the fathers of the bebop jazz style.
Known for his playing his tilted bell trumpet with puffed cheeks.
A Night in Tunisia, Con Alma, Groovin' High, Manteca
Benny Goodman 1909-1986
Benny Goodman / 1909-1986
Known to many as 'The King of Swing'
Great at Jazz and Classical Music
Compositions -
Stompin' at the Savoy, Airmail Special, Flying Home
Recordings -
Sing,Sing,Sing
Mission to Moscow, I Found A New Baby
Body and Soul, Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
Lionel Hampton 1908-2002
Lionel Hampton / 1908-2002
Recordings - Hamp's Blues, Sound of Jazz, Lionel Hampton, Lionel Hampton and the Golden Men of Jazz,
Flying Home, Mingus Fingers
W. C. Handy 1873-1958
W. C. Handy / 1873-1958
Beale Street Blues (1917), Joe Turner Blues (1915)
St. Louis Blues (1914), Yellow Dog Blues (1914)
Memphis Blues (1912)
Coleman Hawkins 1904-1969
Coleman Hawkins / 1904-1969
Body and Soul, Picasso
The Man I Love - Hawkins Quartet, First Impressions
and recordings with other musicians
Fletcher Henderson 1897-1952
Fletcher Henderson / 1897-1952
Gulf Coast Blues

Recordings - The Stampede, Wrappin' Up
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday / 1915-1959
The movie 'Lady Sings the Blues' was a portrayal
of Billie's life.
God Bless the Child
James Johnson 1891-1955
James P. Johnson / 1891-1955
Father of Stride Piano
Carolina Shout, Charleston, Running Wild, Harlem Strut
Recordings - What Is This Thing Called Love,
Snowy Morning Blues
Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin / ca. 1868-1917
The Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag
The Ragtime Dance, Treemonisha
Gene Krupa 1909-1973
Gene Krupa / 1909-1973
Recordings - Rockin' Chair,
Gene Krupa - Boogie, Ballads and BeBop,
and recordings with other musicians
Thelonius Monk
Thelonius Monk / 1917-1982
Blue Monk,
Round Midnight
Jelly Roll Morton 1890-1941
Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton / 1890-1941
Piano pieces -
Jelly Blues, King Porter Stomp, Red Hot Peppers
The Pearls, Sidewalk Blues, Mr. Joe
Kid Ory 1886-1973
Edward 'Kid' Ory / 1886-1973
Recordings -
Ory's Creole Trombone
Society Blues
Charlie Parker, 1920-1955
Charlie 'Bird' Parker / 1920-1955
Famous for his alto saxophone playing ability.
One of the fathers of the 'bebop' jazz style.
Recordings - Now's the Time, Ko-Ko, Yardbird Suite
A Night in Tunisia, Parker's Mood, Embraceable You
Lady, Be Good

Compositions - Confirmation, Now's the Time
Donna Lee
Ben Pollack 1903-1971
Ben Pollack / 1903-1971
Ben Pollack and his Californians
Ben Pollack and His Orchestras

Swing Out, In A Sentimental Mood
Bessie Smith 1895-1937
Bessie Smith / 1895-1937
Empress of the Blues, Downhearted Blues
Taint Nobodys Business

Recordings - St. Louis Blues, Lost Your Head Blues
'Fats' Waller 1904-1943
Thomas 'Fats' Waller / 1904-1943
Ain't Misbehavin', Birmingham Blues
Honeysuckle Rose, Muscle Shoals Blues
Fractious Fingering, I Ain't Got Nobody
Ethel Waters 1896-1977
Ethel Waters / 1896-1977
Recordings - Cocktail Hour, Am I Blue?
Jazzin' Babies, Blues, Georgia On My Mind
More Jazz Facts:
* Chart - in music is the arrangement of the music.
* Improvise - is a solo in jazz music or ... to make up the music as it is being played.
* Riff - is a repeated musical idea.
Resources for Jazz Musicians:
Jazz for Young People (Lincoln Center)
Meet the Great Jazz Legends - by Ronald C. McCurdy - Alfred Publishing 2004 / 2009
Alfred Jazz Greats
Jazz Education Network
Syncopatedtimes.com/about-the-rhj-archive/

Some of the pictures of early jazz musicians were found on various history sites, including the (former) Red Hot Jazz web site, a site about the history of jazz before 1930. Recording info and dates found in various jazz history books, including John Fordham's Jazz - History, Instruments, Musicians, Recordings, (1993) and Frank Tirro's Jazz - A History, 2nd Ed. Files are for educational examples only.