Instrumentalists, bandleaders and singers of jazz, the American music of improvisation and swing that grew from the early twentieth century and produced bebop, cool jazz and later styles. A performer belongs here when the cited article calls the person a jazz musician or singer. It excludes performers of other popular traditions. Their recordings and concerts include dance band swing, small group improvisation and singing with jazz bands, and a performer is placed here where the cited article describes the person as a jazz musician, singer, pianist or bandleader.
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Louis Armstrong (Wikipedia)
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Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901, July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist.
Miles Davis (Wikipedia)
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He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.
John Coltrane (Wikipedia)
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John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926, July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
Duke Ellington (Wikipedia)
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899, May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life.
Wikipedia: Ella Fitzgerald
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Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917, June 15, 1996) was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella".
Wikipedia: Billie Holiday
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Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915, July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer.
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