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Category: Jazz
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Art Tatum
About Arthur Tatum Jr. was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever. From early in his career, fellow musicians acclaimed Tatum’s technical ability as extraordinary. Tatum also extended jazz piano’s vocabulary and boundaries far beyond his initial stride influences, and established new ground through innovative use of reharmonization,…
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Django Reinhardt
About Jean Reinhardt, known by his Romani nickname Django, was a Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one of its most significant exponents. Albums/Songs: Parisian Swing Django Reinhardt And The American Jazz Giants Django Nubes Deux Géants du…
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Nat King Cole
About Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally by his stage name Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole’s career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts.…
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Al Jolson
About Al Jolson was a Lithuanian-born American singer, actor, and vaudevillian. Albums/Songs: American Legends The Best of Jolson The Singing Fool: His 30 Greatest Hits The Great Al Jolson Mammy Let Me Sing and I’m Happy The Best of the Decca Years Souvenir Album Al Jolson Great Songs A Legend Named Jolson The Man and…
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Bix Beiderbecke
About Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Albums/Songs: No significant albums found. Call to Action: What’s your favorite Bix Beiderbecke song? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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Jelly Roll Morton
About Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. Morton was jazz’s first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential characteristics when notated. His composition “Jelly Roll Blues”, published in 1915, was one of the…
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Cab Calloway
About Cabell Calloway III was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era. His niche of mixing jazz and vaudeville won him acclaim during a career that spanned over 65 years. Albums/Songs: No significant albums found.…
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Count Basie
About William James “Count” Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two “split” tenor saxophones,…
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Fats Waller
About Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and singer. His innovations in the Harlem stride style laid much of the basis for modern jazz piano. A widely popular star in the jazz and swing eras, he toured internationally, achieving critical and commercial success in the United States and Europe. His…
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Ella Fitzgerald
About Ella Jane Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the “First Lady of Song”, “Queen of Jazz”, and “Lady Ella”. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a “horn-like” improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. Albums/Songs: No significant albums found. Call to Action:…