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Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was an composer, singer, musician and occasional actor, he was one of the most influential figures in jazz world. Armstrong was born August 4, 1901 in the jazz central city of New Orleans, he started his jazz carrier in the 1920's though to the 1960's. He was one of Americas most famous trumpeter due to his extended trumpet solos and injecting his own personality and style into his solos. -
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald was an American Jazz singer who was also known as the Queen of Jazz. She was known mostly for her particular skill in scat singing, but also for her purity of tone and improvisational ability. Her carrier fist started at the young age of 17, she had attended an Amateur Nights at the Apollo Theater. She had originally intended to go on stage and dance, but ended up singing and winning the first place prize of $25 and an opportunity to sing in the theater for a week. -
Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known big bands. Some of Miller's biggest hits include "In the Mood", "Moonlight Serenade" and "At Last". Miller was an American big band musician, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. during WW2 him and his band traveled to entertain troops -
Billie Holiday
Eleanora Fagan was known by her stage name of "Billie Holiday" was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. She began her career by singing in night clubs where she was heard by a producer by the name of John Hammond and then later signed a recording contract. Holiday had become a mainstream hit through out the 1930's to 1940's. In the late 1940's her voice became withered due to drug and alcohol abuse, but she still sold out all her concerts. -
Miles Davis
Miles Davis is a famous American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. He is one of the most acclaimed figures in the history of jazz. In 1944 to 1948 Davis made his first few professional debuts with saxophonist Charlie Parker's and made a bebop style of music, he recorded the "Birth of the Cool" which included the new style of jazz known as cool jazz in the early 1950's -
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson found himself surrounded by the jazz culture in the early 20th century. At the age of 5, Peterson began honing his skills with the trumpet and piano. However, a bout of tuberculosis when he was seven prevented him from playing the trumpet again, and so he directed all his attention to the piano, when he was 9 Peterson played piano that impressed professional musicians and when he was 14 he dropped out of school and became a professional pianist. Peterson's career was 1945 to 2007 -
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker, also known by his nickname of Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer who began playing the saxophone at age 11, and at age 14 he joined his school's band, his career was active from 1937 to 1955. Parker was an influential jazz soloist and a leading figure in the development of bebop. Parker was well known because he introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords and substitutions. -
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Early in his career Coltrane was working in the bebop and hard bop genres. In September of 1943 his mother bought him his first saxophone. Coltrane played the clarinet and the alto horn in a community band before taking up the alto saxophone during high school. He had his first professional gigs in early to mid 1945 a "cocktail lounge trio" with piano and guitar. His years active were 1945 to 1967. -
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy Ellington, also known as Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning his career over fifty years. in the 1950's Ellington's band started going on wold tours preforming some of his biggest hits known as "Caravan", and "Perdido" that brought a Spanish twist to the jazz band. -
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra is one of the worlds well known American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide with such hits as "Fly me to the moon", "New York, New York", and "Come fly with me". Sinatra never formally learned how to read music he had an impressive understanding of it and toured around the world preforming
