jazzzzz - qb

Miles Davis

Trumpet player, Kind of Blue — “So What,” “Freddie Freeloader,” and “Blue in Green”

Birth of the Cool, “Boplicity”

Collaborated with Gil Evans on Sketches of Spain

HAD A QUINTET

Louis Armstrong

Trumpet player, Nicknamed Satchmo, “What a Wonderful World” + “Hello, Dolly,”

Popularized scat singing

Dizzy Gillespie

Puffed out his cheeks, had a bent trumpet

Recorded A Night in Tunisia and Salt Peanuts

Duke Ellington

Pianist, Bandleader, TAKE THE A TRAIN

Performed at the Cotton Club, composed It Don’t Mean a Thing and Mood Indigo

Dave Brubeck

Had a quartet, composed Take Five for piano and the album Time Out

Also includes Blue Rondo a la Turk

Thelonious Monk

Pianist, composed Round Midnight and Straight, No Chaser

John Coltrane

Saxophone, recorded A Love Supreme and Giant Steps, SHEETS OF SOUND. Recorded Naima and “My Favorite Things”

Charlie Parker

Bebop saxophonist, they called him Bird

Wrote Ornithology as a play on that nickname

Composed Ko-Ko

Buddy Rich

Described as the greatest drummer who ever lived

Ella Fitzgerald

Queen of Jazz, First Lady of Song

Sang “A Tisket, A Tasket” and “It Don’t Mean a Thing”

Also “Summertime”

Famous for scat singing and collabing with Louis Armstrong

Benny Goodman

clarinet, recorded “Sing Sing Sing”

King of Swing