Famous Black Jazz Musicians

• Armstrong, Louis

  The charismatic jazz trumpeter who recorded "Hello Dolly"

• Ashby, Dorothy

  The jazz harpist who recorded 'Afro-Harping' in 1968

• Basie, Count

  Swing bandleader and performer of "One O'Clock Jump"

• Davis, Miles

  Composer/performer of Kind of Blue

• Ellington, Duke

  Performer of "Take the 'A' Train"

• Morton, Jelly Roll

  The composer of Jelly Roll Blues

• Scott, Hazel

  The jazz star who had her own TV show in 1950, The Hazel Scott Show

• Tatum, Art

  Jazz's too-many-notes piano wizard of the 1930s and '40s

• Young, Lester

  The jazz saxophonist called "The Prez"

See: Famous African-Americans (for Black History Month)