Major+Jazz+Artists


 * Jazz is a type of music that was rooted in the musical tradition of American blacks.
 * early jazz was played in small marching band or by solo pianists

Jazz styles be-bop big band swing traditional dixieland new orleans hardbop post-bop cool jazz

Jazz styles be-bop big band swing traditional dixieland new orleans hardbop post-bop cool jazz

Jazz artists Red Allen Buster Bailey Count Basie Emmett Berry Art Blakey Scoville Browne Lawrence Brown Buck Clayton Bill Crump Vic Dickenson Roy Eldridge Art Farmer Bud Freeman Dizzy Gillespie Tyree Glenn Benny Golson Sonny Greer Johnny Griffin Gigi Gryce Coleman Hawkins J.C. Heard Jay C. Higginbotham Milt Hinton Chubby Jackson Hilton Jefferson Osie Johnson Hank Jones Jimmy Jones Jo Jones Taft Jordan Max Kaminsky Gene Krupa Eddie Locke Marian Mcpartland Charles Mingus Miff Mole Thelonious Monk Gerry Mulligan Oscar Pettiford Rudy Powell Luckey Roberts Sonny Rollins Jimmy Rushing Pee Wee Russel Sahib Shihab Horace Silver Zutty Singleton Stuff Smith Rex Stewart Maxine Sullivan Joe Thomas Wilbur Ware Dicky Wells George Wettling Ernie Wilkins Mary Lou Williams Lester Young