Armstrong, Louis (New Orleans)
The charismatic jazz trumpeter who recorded "Hello Dolly"
Famous Jazz Musicians from United States
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Ashby, Dorothy (Detroit)
The jazz harpist who recorded 'Afro-Harping' in 1968 -
Baker, Chet (Yale)
The druggie white jazz trumpeter who also crooned -
Basie, Count (Red Bank)
Swing bandleader and performer of "One O'Clock Jump" -
Blakey, Art (Pittsburgh)
Drummer and leader of the Jazz Messengers -
Brubeck, David (Concord)
The jazz pianist who did the song "Take Five" -
Coleman, Ornette (Fort Worth)
The plastic sax player who launched Free Jazz -
Cole, Nat King (Montgomery)
The singer of "Unforgettable" and "Mona Lisa" -
Coltrane, John (Hamlet)
Innovative sax player and composer -
Davis, Miles (Alton)
Composer/performer of Kind of Blue -
Dolphy, Eric (Los Angeles)
The way-out reed man who recorded Out to Lunch -
Dr. John (New Orleans)
The New Orleans singer of 1973's "Right Place, Wrong Time" -
Ellington, Duke
Performer of "Take the 'A' Train" -
Ellis, Don (Los Angeles)
The experimental post-bop jazz musician who invented the "superbone" -
Evans, Bill (Plainfield)
One of the all-time greats on jazz piano -
Garner, Erroll (Pittsburgh)
The guy who wrote the song "Misty" -
Getz, Stan (Philadelphia)
The jazz saxophonist who did "The Girl From Ipanema" -
Glasper, Robert (Houston)
The jazz pianist who did 'Black Radio' -
Goodman, Benny (Chicago)
Clarinetist nicknamed "The King of Swing" -
Gordon, Dexter (Los Angeles)
Long, tall tenor sax jazz legend -
Guaraldi, Vince (San Francisco)
The jazz pianist who wrote the music for Charlie Brown -
Hampton, Lionel (Louisville)
Jazz legend who was "King of the Vibes" -
Hawkins, Coleman (St. Joseph)
Tenor sax player who had the hit "Body and Soul" -
Hines, Earl (Duquesne)
Influential jazz pianist -
Marsalis, Branford (Beaux Bridge)
Jazz saxophonist and brother of Wynton Marsalis -
Marsalis, Wynton (New Orleans)
The trumpeter in the Marsalis jazz family -
Mingus, Charles (Nogales)
Jazz bassist and composer who did Pithecanthropus Erectus -
Monk, Thelonious (Rocky Mount)
Influential and idiosyncratic bop jazz pianist -
Morton, Jelly Roll (Gulfport)
The composer of Jelly Roll Blues -
Parker, Charlie (Kansas City)
Influential alto saxophone player -
Roach, Max (New Land)
Bebop drummer and bandleader with Clifford Brown -
Rollins, Sonny (New York City)
The bop-era saxophonist who did "St. Thomas" -
Severinsen, Doc (Arlington)
Bandleader for Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show -
Shaw, Artie (New York City)
The clarinet-playing big band leader who recorded Begin the Beguine -
Strayhorn, Billy (Dayton)
Composer of "Take the 'A' Train" -
Tatum, Art (Toledo)
Jazz's too-many-notes piano wizard of the 1930s and '40s -
Tyner, McCoy (Philadelphia)
The piano player in The John Coltrane Quartet in the 1960s -
Waller, Fats (New York City)
The joyous piano player who wrote the song "Ain't Misbehavin'" -
Young, Lester (Woodville)
The jazz saxophonist called "The Prez"