Mª Fernanda Garzón O.

New Orleans 4º August 1901

He came from a very poor family.

Was a great Trumpet player. He knew Mr. Farnofsky, and he gave him his first Trumpet.

He was known as “satchmo”

and “Pops”

He got married 4 times.

New York 8º July 1971

He was one of the first in changing from Blues to Jazz

Thanks to him the trumpet emerged as a soloinstrument in jazz.

He was best known for his virtuosity with the cornetand trumpet.

He popularized the Scat singing.

As a trumpet player, he had a unique tone and anextraordinary talent for melodic improvisation.

From 1923 to 2006 he recorded 31 albums. The most important ones are:

1923 Louis Armstrong and King Oliver (Milestone)

1928 Hot fives and sevens, Vol 3.

1963 Hello! Dolly (Mca)

1968 What a wonderful world (Verve)

1968 Disney Song the Satchmo way (Disney)

2006 Complete New York town hall and Boston symphony hall concerts (Definitive)

Hamlet 23° September 1926.

All his life he was involved in music, his grandfathers were religious and he used to sing in their church.

Almost all his family died when he was very young so he was raised by his mother.

He died because of a Liver

cancer in New York in

July 27° 1967.

Was known as “Traine”

He played many instruments like: Clarinet, Alto HornFlute and Alto, Tenor and Soprano Saxophone.

The influence Coltrane has had on music spans manydifferent genres and musicians. Coltrane's massiveinfluence on jazz, both mainstream and avant-garde,began during his lifetime and continued to grow afterhis death.

Between 1951 and 1967 he recorded:

1. More than 50 albums as leader (1957- 1967)

2. With Miles Davis 19 albums (1961- 1958)

3. With Thelonious Monk 6 albums( 1957- 1958)

4. And with other leaders more than 50 albums (1951-1962) : Some of them are: Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Chambers, Tommy Flanagan, Sonny Clark.

Ray Charles Robinson was born in Albany, Georgia, United States September 23, 1930

He had a difficult childhood because he got blind when he was very young and his family was poor so his mother sent him to a special institute.

He died in Beverly Hills,

in June 10, 2004

Composer, musician, arranger, bandleader

The influences upon his music were mainly jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and country artists of the day such as Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, Charles Brown and Louis Armstrong.

His playing reflected influences from country blues, barrelhouse and stride piano styles.

He recorded 55 studio albumsAlso he recorded 7 Live albumsAnd 127 SinglesHis most famous song is What'd I SayGrammy Awarded Works : “Let The

Good Times Roll” “Living for the City” “A Song for You” “Heaven Help Us All “ “Here We Go Again”

Her real name was Eleanora Fagan se was born in April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia

She also had a complicated life because her mother was very young when she borned and her father was a musician as well but he abandoned them when Billie was a baby then her mother left her with some relatives.

She died in July 17,

1959 in New York City.

Was an American jazz singer and songwriter.

She had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing.

Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists

She pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.

Strange Fruit, is her most famous song

The discography of Billie Holiday consists of:

1. 12 studio albums

2. 3 live albums

3. 24 compilations, and one box set.

(Newport News - Virginia April 25,1917 – Beverly Hills - California June15, 1996) Also known as the "FirstLady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and"Lady Ella", was an American jazzvocalist.

She was noted for her purity of tone,impeccable diction, phrasing andintonation, and a "horn-like"improvisational ability, particularlyin her scat singing.

The career history and archival material from Ella'slong career are housed in the Archives Center at theSmithsonian's National Museum of American History,while her personal music arrangements are at TheLibrary of Congress. Her extensive cookbook collectionwas donated to the Schlesinger Library at HarvardUniversity, and her published sheet music collection isat the Schoenberg Library in New York City.

In 1997, Newport News, Virginia created a musicfestival with Christopher Newport University to honorElla Fitzgerald in her birth city. The Ella FitzgeraldMusic Festival is designed to teach the region's youthof the musical legacy of Fitzgerald and jazz.

Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the GreatAmerican Songbook. Over the course of her 59-yearrecording career, she sold 40 million copies of her 70-plus albums, won 13 Grammy Awards and was awardedthe National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan and thePresidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush.

1950: 15 Albums.

1960: 20 Albums.

1970: 9 Albums.

1980: 5 Albums.

Live Albums: 23.

Miles Dewey Davis III (Alton –Illinois May 26, 1926 – SantaMonica – California September28, 1991) was an American jazzmusician, trumpeter, bandleader,and composer. Widely consideredone of the most influentialmusicians of the 20th century,Miles Davis was, with his musicalgroups, at the forefront of severalmajor developments in jazzmusic, including bebop, cool jazz,hard bop, modal jazz, and jazzfusion.

Miles Davis is regarded as one of the most innovative,influential and respected figures in the history ofmusic. He has been described as “one of the greatinnovators in jazz”. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia ofRock & Roll noted "Miles Davis played a crucial andinevitably controversial role in every majordevelopment in jazz since the mid-'40s, and no otherjazz musician has had so profound an effect on rock.Miles Davis was the most widely recognized jazzmusician of his era, an outspoken social critic and anarbiter of style—in attitude and fashion—as well asmusic".

His album Kind of Blue is the best-selling album in the history of jazz music.

Releases

↙Studio albums 48

↙Live albums 36

↙Compilation albums 38

↙Soundtracks 3

↙Box sets 17

↙Collaborations 72

↙Videos 27

↙Tunes 57