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B. Benny Bailey; Buster Bailey; Billy Banks (singer) Allan Barnes; Bill Barron (musician) Kenny Barron; Robert Barry (musician) LeRoy Battle; Sidney Bechet; Abshalom Ben Shlomo
This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on Wikipedia. Do not enter names that lack articles. ... Art Van Damme (1920–2010) [1 ...
Louis Armstrong George Benson Chuck Berry James Brown Ray Charles Nat King Cole John Coltrane Sam Cooke Miles Davis Sammy Davis Jr. Fats Domino Dennis Edwards Duke Ellington Art Farmer Ella Fitzgerald Roberta Flack Aretha Franklin Marvin Gaye Dizzy Gillespie Buddy Guy Isaac Hayes Jimi Hendrix Gil Scott-Heron Billie Holiday John Lee Hooker Whitney Houston Michael Jackson Etta James Rick James ...
While the Big Band Era suggests that big bands flourished for a short period, they have been a part of jazz music since their emergence in the 1920s when white concert bands adopted the rhythms and musical forms of small African-American jazz combos.
Created by Grammy Award-winning songwriter-producer and Black Music Association co-founder Kenny Gamble, the initiative, which was to highlight Black artists’ many contributions to American ...
The jazz pianist and composer Eubie Blake got his start in 1920s Vaudeville, [33] as did Louis Armstrong and other jazz musicians. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Notable Black female blues singers who started on the Vaudeville stage included Ma Rainey , Bessie Smith , Clara Smith , Mamie Smith , Mamie Brown, Ida Cox , and Edmonia Henderson . [ 36 ]
Feb. 28—TOLEDO is well noted as a big place for jazz, which originated in the African-American community of New Orleans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and became noted worldwide. Its ...
Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) is a famous Black female artist with a knack for combining abstract and figurative styles, plus African and Mexican art traditions, to create sculptures and prints ...