* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

* November 30 – Charlie Byrd, American Jazz musician and classical guitarist ( b. 1925 )

* November 5 – Eddie Harris, American Jazz musician ( b. 1934 )

* June 20 – Eric Dolphy, American Jazz musician ( d. 1964 )

** Albert Mangelsdorff, German Jazz musician ( d. 2005 )

In 1971, on the 40th anniversary of Beiderbecke's death, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival was founded in Davenport, Iowa, to honor the musician.

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.

* Holly Slater, British Jazz musician

* Horst Winter ( 1914-2001 ), German / Austrian Jazz musician

* Jazz musician Cleveland Eaton ( Count Basie Orchestra ) was born in Fairfield.

* Floyd Council, Jazz musician ( deceased )

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

* Jazz musician Jack Teagarden lived in San Angelo.

Jazz musician Louis Jordan's song " Salt Pork, W. Va ." was inspired by his time in a Bluefield jail.

Coxhill was compere and occasional performer at the Bracknell Jazz Festival, and a raconteur as well as a musician ; indeed it was following a performance at Bracknell that he recorded the melodramatic monologue Murder in the Air.

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.

* Jazz musician John G. Blowers, Jr .; former drummer for Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, and the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band.

He was voted musician of the year by Down Beat magazine in 1978 and 1980, and in the latter year was inducted into Down Beat's Jazz Hall of Fame.

The instrumental palette was also extended with acoustic guitar, violin ( from local musician Owen John ) and saxophone and trumpet ( from members of The Jazz Butcher ) being used on some songs.

Told to " write what you want to write ," Allen ( a clarinetist and avid jazz enthusiast ) wrote The Jazz Baby, a dramatic screenplay about a jazz musician set in the thirties.

Jonathan Butler, Jazz musician.

He broke into the Chicago scene in 1927, when he was picked by MCA to become a member of " Thelma Terry and Her Playboys ," the first notable American Jazz band ( outside of all-girl bands ) to be led by a female musician.

In 1993, Charles was signed to the Acid Jazz record label.

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

During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue ( and singing ) in a feature film ; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation.

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

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

The Strand plays host to a yearly Mardi Gras festival, Galveston Island Jazz & Blues Festival and a Victorian-themed Christmas festival called Dickens on the Strand ( honoring the works of novelist Charles Dickens, especially A Christmas Carol ) in early December.

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.

* Mary Ann Fisher African-American Jazz singer of, the Ray Charles group, The Raelettes

These included Phase 4 Stereo recordings of Gustav Holst's The Planets and Charles Ives's 2nd Symphony, as well as an album entitled " The Impressionists " ( music by Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Fauré and Honegger ) and another entitled " The Four Faces of Jazz " ( works by Weill, Gershwin, Stravinsky and Milhaud ).

All of these musicians had strong backgrounds in jazz ; Berliner had worked closely with Charles Mingus and Kay was part of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

As a young man McLean also recorded with Gene Ammons, Charles Mingus on the seminal Pithecanthropus Erectus, George Wallington, and as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.

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

Schuller is editor-in-chief of Jazz Masterworks Editions, and co-director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in Washington, D. C. Another recent effort of preservation was his editing and posthumous premiering at Lincoln Center in 1989 of Charles Mingus ' immense final work, Epitaph, subsequently released on Columbia / Sony Records.

After sweeping the Los Angeles Clippers and defeating the Los Angeles Lakers, the Jazz took on the Houston Rockets, led by the aging trio of Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley, and Clyde Drexler.

* Charles Rattray ( 1911 – 1995 ), English footballer nicknamed " Jazz "

He later played with Charles Mingus, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver, and Lou Donaldson, and led a group with Junior Cook.

Between 1957 and 1968 he played with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Slide Hampton, the John Coltrane Quartet, Marian McPartland, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Mose Allison, Charles Lloyd, Paul Bley, and Steve Kühn, among others, as well as leading his own group and working as the house drummer at the Jazz Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts.

7: Blue Note Now & Then ( Various ); Blue Valentines ( Various ); Down Here Below ( Jeffery Smith ); Edge ( Lenny White ); Jazznavour ( Charles Aznavour ); Just the Ticket ( Original Soundtrack ) ( bckgr ); Live at the Blue Note: 75th Birthday Celebration ( Chico & Von Freeman ); Live in Swing City: Swingin with the Duke ( Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis ); Manhattan Melodies ( Eric Reed ); Native Voices ( Various ); R ' N ' Browne ( Tom Browne ); Tribute to Ellington ( Daniel Barenboim )

Charles ' debut for the label, Genius + Soul = Jazz provided Impulse with its first major hit, and became the fourth-highest charting album of Charles ' career.