Jazz Greats

Jazz Greats - Discussion for the Jazz greats of yesterday.

NB Names in bold are Geni profiles

• The Jazz Greats
• The Roots of R&B
  

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Female

• Abbie Lincoln nee Anna Marie Wooldridge
• Lucille Dixon Robertson
• Sarah Vaughan
• Dinah Washington
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Anita O'Day
• Nellie Lutcher
• Janet Brace
• Polly Bergen
• Peggy Lee
• Jean TV Mama
• Ma Rainey
• Della Reese
• Cindy Blackman
• Cassandra Wilson
• Angela Bofill
• Jean Carne
• Adelaide Hall
  

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Male

• Bix Beiderbecke
• Django Reinhardt
• Pharoah Sanders
• Ron Carter
• Sam Rivers
• Cab Calloway
• Duke Ellington
• Rich Rawlings
• Jack Teagarden
• Charlie Teagarden
• Stan Tarington
• Shorty Rogers
• Louis Armstrong
• Cannonball Adderly
• Nate Adderly
• Wes Montgomery
• Art Farmer
• Milt Buckner
• Cootie Williams
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Thelonius Monk
• John Coltrane
• Oscar Peterson
• Joe Zawinul
• Bill Evans
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Williams_(jazz_singer) Joe Williams]
• Mel Torme
• Joe Henderson
• Steve Lawrence
• Steve Allen
• Sil Austin, sax
• Ace Cannon, sax
• Earl Garner
• Lionel Hampton
• Count Basie
• Louis Lomax
• Jerry Mulligan
• Gene Krupa, drums
• Peter Nero
• Ike Turner
• Sticks Magee, drum
• Nat King Cole
• Buckethead
• Bill Laswell
• Tony Williams
• Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen (NHØP)
• Earl Hines
• Eugene McDaniels (Feb. 12, 1935-July 29, 2011), singer and songwriter.
• Frank Foster (1929-July 26, 2011), played with Basie.
• Jack McCray, Charleston jazz historian, advocate and author.
• Sonny Rollins
• Ornette Coleman
• Lester Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.
• Billy Eckstine (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993) was an American singer with a rich, resonant, almost operatic baritone voice and a bandleader of the swing era.
• Jackie McLean
  

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