* 1943 – Michael Mantler, American trumpeter and composer ( Jazz Composer's Orchestra )

Jazz bassist Charles Mingus was also an influential bandleader and composer whose musical interests spanned from bebop to free jazz.

Jazz, on the other hand, is often characterized as the product of egalitarian creativity, interaction and collaboration, placing equal value on the contributions of composer ( if there is one ) and performer, ' adroitly weigh the respective claims of the composer and the improviser '.

* 1920 – John Lewis, American pianist, arranger, and composer ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2001 )

** Jazz bassist / composer Charles Mingus presents a disastrous concert at Town Hall in New York City.

Jazz has played an important role in Eastwood's life from a young age and, although he never made it as a professional musician, he passed on the influence to his son Kyle Eastwood, a successful jazz bassist and composer.

Also a notable composer, he wrote many tunes still played regularly, including " Dipper Mouth Blues ", " Sweet Like This ", " Canal Street Blues ", and " Doctor Jazz ".

Oliver was also a talented composer, and wrote many tunes that are still regularly played, including " Dipper Mouth Blues ", " Sweet Like This ", " Canal Street Blues ", and " Doctor Jazz ".

#" Soudan " ( also known as " Oriental Jass " and " Oriental Jazz "), 1920, recorded in London in the UK in May 1920 and released as English # Columbia 829 ; " Soudan " was composed by Czech composer Gabriel Sebek in 1906 as " In the Soudan: A Dervish Chorus " or " Oriental Scene for Piano, Op.

Jazz pianist and composer, Frank Signorelli, who collaborated on the jazz standards " A Blues Serenade ", recorded by Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, " Gypsy ", and " Stairway to the Stars ", joined ODJB for a brief time in 1921.

* Jazz pianist and composer Tadd Dameron composed " Fontainebleau " upon visiting the palace.

* Jazz saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Courtney Pine moved to Kingsbury at age 14 and attended Kingsbury High School

* Sean Jones ( Jazz musician, composer, educator, lead trumpeter for Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra )

Jazz drummer, composer and band leader.

Jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus wrote the tone poem Pithecanthropus Erectus to tell the story of the evolution of man and his eventual downfall.

He began his second career as composer of film scores in 1930, when he provided arrangements ( and perhaps portions of the score ) for the film King of Jazz.

Zamość hosts the following cultural events: concerts of music performed by the Karol Namysłowski Symphonic Orchestra in Zamość and by Polish artists representing different kinds of music, Zamość Days of Music ( Zamojskie Dni Muzyki ) and International Meetings of Jazz Singers ( Międzynarodowe Spotkania Wokalistów Jazzowych ), which is a tribute to Mieczysław Kosz, a great blind jazz player and composer who used to combine his jazz music with the Polish folk.

Luciano Caruso ( b. July 19, 1957 in Turin, Italy ) is an Italian Jazz composer and Soprano saxophone performer.

Jazz composer Keith Jarrett claimed that the song had been based on one of his own compositions, titled " Long As You Know You're Living Yours ".

Weldon Leo " Jack " Teagarden ( August 20, 1905 – January 15, 1964 ), known as " Big T " and " The Swingin ' Gate ", was a jazz trombonist, bandleader, composer, and vocalist, regarded as the " Father of Jazz Trombone ".

Etaoin is also credited as the composer for " Blues " on the original 1944 10 " LP Jazz at the Philharmonic ( Mercury / Clef MG35005 ).

Joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1958 further developed his talent as a soloist and composer.

During World War I, bandleader James Reese Europe played a jazz version of " La Marseillaise ", which can be heard on Part 2 of the Ken Burns TV documentary Jazz.

Post College in Long Island while maintaining several other musical activities, including co-founding Harlem ’ s Jazzmobile in 1965, serving as the bandleader for the David Frost Show, working as a music commentator for the CBS “ Sunday Morning ” show, and publishing several compositions and the book “ Jazz Piano: A Jazz History ” ( 1983 ).

Jazz trumpeter and bandleader Louis Armstrong in 1953.

She was accompanied by bandleader and pianist Thomas Dorsey, and the band he assembled called the Wildcats Jazz Band which included Eddie Pollack, Gabriel Washington, Albert Wynn and David Nelson.

* Sangam ( 2006 ) – Jazz collaboration with bandleader Charles Lloyd.

* Glenn Miller ( Alton G. Miller ) cenotaph -- ( 1904 – 1944 )— Jazz bandleader, trombonist.

When the Harvard University Jazz Band visited the Dominican Republic and heard Camilo at a jam session, the bandleader encouraged him, ' You should be in the States ', and so the idea was planted.

In 2003, at the age of 80, he released his first album as bandleader through the Daddy Jazz label.

The Jazz bandleader James Reese Europe recruited brothers Rafael and Jesús Hernández, and 16 more Puerto Ricans to join the United States Army's Harlem Hell fighters musical band, the Orchestra Europe.

Trombonist and bandleader Frank Coughlan ( 1904 – 1979 ) has been called " The Father of Australian Jazz ".

Trumpeter, bandleader and singer Louis Armstrong, known internationally as the " Ambassador of Jazz ," was a much-imitated innovator of early jazz.

* Jazz / Jump Blues saxophonist, singer, and bandleader Louis Jordan recorded the song "( You Dyed Your Hair ) Chartreuse.

As a soloist and bandleader, Weiss has been featured on television and radio programs such as CBS News Nightwatch, Live from Lincoln Center, Jazzset, Piano Jazz, and the Jazz Piano Christmas Special.

Paul Whiteman was the most popular bandleader of the 1920s, and claimed for himself the title " The King of Jazz.

A founder member of the original Jazz Warriors, Gary Crosby is a professional musician and bandleader, composer / arranger, record producer, company director and facilitator.

One might say that Surrealist strands may be found in movements such as Free Jazz ( Don Cherry, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor etc.

A very short listing of notable jazz bands includes King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker Quintet, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Jazz Messengers, the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the John Coltrane Quartet, the Bill Evans Trio, Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Oregon, Return to Forever, the Pat Metheny Group, and the World Saxophone Quartet.

Noteworthy performers included: Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Gil Evans, Stan Kenton, Johnny Richards, Sun Ra, Gary MacFarland, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Carla Bley, Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band, Sam Rivers, Don Ellis, Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Anthony Braxton.

* Jazz by Sun Ra – Sun Ra

Also in 1974, the band collaborated with Ramsey Lewis on his album Sun Goddess, which reached number one on the Billboard Jazz and Black Album charts and was certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.

* Europafest: Jazz Highlights ( 2008 ) with Mike Stern, Sonny Fortune, Bob Berg, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, and more

* 1958: The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays No Sun in Venice ( Atlantic )

Morning Dance became Billboard's # 3 Jazz Album of 1980 and Catching the Sun was the # 4 jazz album of 1980.

Fuji Jazz Festival 2002 in Shizuoka, and Rising Sun Rock Festival in Hokkaido.

After a successful performance in Frank Lloyd Wright's Annie Pfieffer Chapel at Florida Southern College's " Child of the Sun " Jazz Festival he was commissioned to write a full scale orchestral work for jazz trio and orchestra.

He also helped in the founding and development of the annual Child of the Sun Jazz Festival, held annually at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida.

In 1964 Bley was instrumental in the formation of the Jazz Composers Guild-a co-operative organisation which brought together many free jazz musicians in New York: Roswell Rudd, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, his ex-wife Carla Bley, Michael Mantler, Sun Ra, among others.

Jazz bands like Blue Sun, Burnin Red Ivanhoe, Secret Oyster and Maxwells also moved towards rock.

Gonzalo Rubalcaba has received 14 Grammy nominations ( winning 2 Grammys for Nocturne and Land of the Sun, and 2 Latin Grammys for Solo and Supernova ) including four for Jazz Album of the Year ( Rapsodia in 1995, Antiguo and Inner Voyage in 1999, and Supernova in 2002 ).

* Jazz by Sun Ra ( Saturn )

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

Harrell's 2011 recording, The Time of the Sun, received his sixth SESAC Jazz Award.

Jazz artist Sun Ra used the term to describe his music in 1956, when he stated that the music allowed him to translate his experience of the void of space into a language people could enjoy and understand.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Narada created several sub-label imprints to differentiate their offerings in the marketplace, in particular: Sona Gaia, Antiquity Records, Rising Sun Records, Narada World, Narada Jazz, and Narada Mystique.

He has played in the NBA for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors and Indiana Pacers, in the CBA for the Yakima Sun Kings, in the USBL for the Saint Joseph Express, in the NBA D-League with the Albuquerque Thunderbirds, Canton Charge, and Erie BayHawks, and in the Italian top league for Mabo Prefabbricati Livorno, Lottomatica Virtus Roma and Montepaschi Siena.