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Jazz Greats - Discussion for the Jazz greats of yesterday.
NB Names in bold are Geni profiles
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
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