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  Django Reinhardt was the first hugely influential jazz figure to emerge from Europe -- and he remains the most influential European to th...

  Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist. As a pianist, composer, arran...

  Jazz history is full of innovators, interpreters, and individualists. The innovators change the way that the music is played and influence...

  Andrew Dewey Kirk (May 28, 1898 – December 11, 1992) was an American jazz saxophonist and tubist who led the Twelve Clouds of Joy , a ban...

  Fats Waller seems never to have suffered from seasickness. Every photograph and eyewitness account of his transatlantic nautical advent...

  Claude Driskett Hopkins (August 24, 1903 – February 19, 1984) was an American jazz stride pianist and bandleader.  Hopkins was born into ...

  Gene Krupa , in full Eugene Bertram Krupa, (born January 15, 1909, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died October 16, 1973, Yonkers, New York), Amer...

  One of the greatest of all tenor players, Don Byas ' decision to move permanently to Europe in 1946 resulted in him being vastly under...

  Charlie Barnet was unusual in several ways. One of the few jazzmen to be born a millionaire, Barnet was a bit of a playboy throughout his...

  David Roy Eldridge (January 30, 1911 – February 26, 1989), commonly known as Roy Eldridge, and nicknamed "Little Jazz", was an ...

  Wynonie Harris (August 24, 1915 – June 14, 1969) was an American blues shouter and rhythm-and-blues singer of upbeat songs, featuring hum...

Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940) was an American New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his...

  Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor. He...

  Jimmie Noone  (or Jimmy Noone; April 23, 1895 – April 19, 1944) was an American jazz clarinetist. Noone was born in Cut Off, Louisiana, an...

  John Kirby (December 31, 1908 – June 14, 1952), was an American jazz double-bassist, who also played trombone and tuba. In addition to si...

  Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress. She frequently perform...

  Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (April 13, 1906 – March 15, 1991) was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly...

  Bennie Moten  (November 13, 1894 – April 2, 1935) was a noted American jazz pianist and band leader born in Kansas City, Missouri. He led ...

 One of the Swing Era’s piano greats who isn’t as well known today as those named above was Jess Stacy . Stacy was born in Missouri in 1904...

  Erroll Louis Garner  (June 15, 1923 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. ...