* 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.

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.

Jazz musician, Charles Mingus, recites a variation on the poem in the introduction to his composition “ Don't Let it Happen Here ”.

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.

The soundtrack album, which featured Louis Armstrong, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, and Carmen McRae was recorded in 1961 ; the musical itself was performed at the 1962 Monterey Jazz Festival.

* April 6 – Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, " Chimes Blues ," with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.

Beiderbecke's style was very different from that of Louis Armstrong according to The Oxford Companion to Jazz:

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.

Jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Paul Whiteman first popularized jazz music among a diverse audience.

Even Louis Armstrong switched over from his more usual cornet to the slide whistle for a chorus on a couple of recordings with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.

Paul Barbarin's year of birth is often given as 1901, but his brother Louis Barbarin ( born 1902 ) said he was quite sure that Paul was several years older than he was, and Paul Barbarin simply refused to answer the year of his birth in an interview at Tulane's Jazz Archives.

He later recorded with other musicians, including a notable session with the 1944 Esquire Jazz All-Stars, which included Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and other jazz greats, at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

Among the artists who have recorded " Tiger Rag " are Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Orchestra, Bix Beiderbecke, Les Paul, Art Tatum, The Mills Brothers in a no.

Jazz trumpeter and bandleader Louis Armstrong in 1953.

* Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago to join King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.

Ma Rainey also recorded with Louis Armstrong in addition to touring and recording with the Georgia Jazz Band.

The series was also parodied on The Fast Show, with Jazz Club, hosted by the eccentric ( but quiet ) Louis Balfour ( a play on Bob Harris ).

On a visit to Chicago, Carmichael was introduced by Beiderbecke to Louis Armstrong, who was then playing with King Oliver ’ s Creole Jazz Band, and with whom he would collaborate later.

Gennett is best remembered for the wealth of early jazz talent recorded on the label, including sessions by Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, " King " Joe Oliver's band with the young Louis Armstrong, Lois Deppe's Serenaders with the young Earl Hines, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, The Red Onion Jazz Babies, The State Street Ramblers, Zach Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels, Alphonse Trent and his Orchestra and many others.

*" Stardust " ( played by Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra, 1931 ) The Red Hot Jazz Archive

Jazz artists like Louis Armstrong originally received very little airtime because most stations preferred to play the music of white American jazz singers.

In 1952, Steiner leased reissue rights to a newly-formed jazz label, Riverside Records, which reissued a substantial number of 10 " and then 12 " LPs by many of the blues singers in the Paramount catalog, as well as instrumental jazz by such Chicago-based notables as Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band ( which included a very young Louis Armstrong ), Johnny Dodds, Muggsy Spanier, and Meade Lux Lewis.

* Jazz and Poetry ( 1964 ) by Louis van Gasteren, Amsterdam.

* Louis Armstrong All Stars: Live in Zurich 18 October 1949: Montreux Jazz Label