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Ray Barretto
Ray Barretto (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was a Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican jazz musician, widely credited as the godfather of Latin jazz.
Barretto (whose surname is really "Barreto"; a mistake at the time Ray's birth certificate was...
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Joe Newman
Joseph Dwight Newman (7 September 1922–4 July 1992) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator, best known for his time with Count Basie.
Newman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to a musical family, having his first music lessons from...
Cannonball Adderley
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was a jazz alto saxophonist of the small combo era of the 1950s and 1960s. Originally from Tampa, Florida, he moved to New York in the mid 1950s.
He was the brother of jazz...
Oliver Nelson
Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger and composer.
Oliver Nelson's family was musical: his brother was also a saxophonist who played with Cootie...
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Babatunde Olatunji
Babatunde Olatunji (April 7, 1927 – April 6, 2003) was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist and recording artist.
Olatunji was born in the village of Ajido, a small town near Badagry, Lagos State, in southwestern Nigeria. A member of the...
Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly (December 2, 1931 in Jamaica — April 12, 1971, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a jazz pianist who spent his career in the United States. He is perhaps best known for working with trumpeter Miles Davis in the '50s.
Kelly started his...
Clark Terry
Clark Terry (born December 14, 1920), is an American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.
He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948 to 1951), Duke Ellington (1951 to...
Jerome Richardson
Jerome Richardson (November 15, 1920 – June 23, 2000) was an American jazz musician, tenor saxophonist, and flute player, who also played alto sax, baritone sax, clarinet and piccolo. He played with Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, the Thad Jones/Mel...
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Bob Brookmeyer
Robert Brookmeyer (born December 19, 1929) is an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, and arranger.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Brookmeyer first gained widespread public attention as a member of Gerry Mulligan's quartet from 1954 to 1957. He...
Nat Adderley
Nathaniel Adderley (November 25, 1931 in Tampa, Florida – January 2, 2000 in Lakeland, Florida) was an American jazz cornet and trumpet player who played in the hard bop and soul jazz genres. He was the brother of saxophonist Julian "Cannonball"...
Jimmy Cleveland
Jimmy Cleveland (May 3, 1926 – August 23, 2008) was an American jazz trombone virtuoso born in Wartrace, Tennessee.
Cleveland worked with many well-known jazz musicians, including Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Antonio Carlos Jobim,...
Don Butterfield
Don Butterfield (b. January 4, 1923, Centralia, Washington - d. November 27, 2006, Clifton, New Jersey) was an American jazz and classical tuba player.
Butterfield took up tuba in high school. He wanted to play trumpet, but the band director...
George Dorsey
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Charlie Persip
Charlie Persip, later Charli Persip (born July 26, 1929), is an American jazz drummer. Born in Morristown, New Jersey as Charles Lawrence Persip, he changed his name to Charli Persip in the early 1980s.
After playing with Tadd Dameron in 1953,...
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Melba Liston
Melba Doretta Liston (January 13, 1926 – April 23, 1999) was an American jazz musician (trombone, compositions, musical arrangements). Her collaborations with pianist/composer Randy Weston, beginning in the early 1960s, are widely acknowledged as...
Louis Hayes
Louis Hayes (born May 31, 1937, in Detroit, MI) is a jazz hard bop drummer.
His father played drums and piano and his mother the piano and he refers to the early influence of hearing jazz, especially that of big bands, on the radio. His main...
