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Jazz Greats

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Soupy Sales (1926 - 2009)
Supman (January 8, 1926 – October 22, 2009), known professionally as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor, radio/television personality, and jazz aficionado.[8] He was best known for his local ...
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Emmanuel N'Djoké “Manu” Dibango (1933 - 2020)
N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango (12 December 1933 – 24 March 2020) was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played saxophone and vibraphone. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional ...
Raoul Björkenheim
Raoul Björkenheim (born 1956, Los Angeles) is a Finnish-American jazz guitarist. He was born to Finnish parents. His mother is actress/singer/ballet teacher Taina Elg . He lived in the U.S. until he wa...
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Dr. John (1941 - 2019)
Rebennack, the pianist, singer, songwriter and producer better known as Dr. John, who embodied the New Orleans sound for generations of music fans, died on Thursday. He was 77.A family statement releas...
William Edward Dennis (1921 - 1965)
Willie Dennis was one of the great individualists on the trombone [Bill Harris, Jimmy Knepper and Frank Rosolino also come to mind in this regard].Brian Priestly, the author of a critical biography on ...

Jazz Greats - Discussion for the Jazz greats of yesterday.

NB Names in bold are Geni profiles

Female

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
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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