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Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker was a highly influential American jazz musician primarily known for his innovative contributions to bebop...

Virtuoso Modern Classic Bebop

9.9 Brilliant

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Miles Davis

Miles Davis (1926-1991) was an influential American trumpeter and composer pivotal in shaping modern jazz. His innovativ...

Classic Fusion Cool Modal

9.9 Brilliant

3

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was an influential American jazz musician renowned for his distinctive piano style and groun...

Composer Modern Classic Piano

9.7 Brilliant

4

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie was a highly influential American jazz musician renowned for his virtuosic trumpet playing and significa...

Classic Bebop Trumpet Bandleader

9.6 Brilliant

5

Max Roach

Max Roach was a highly influential American jazz drummer and composer. His innovative work spanned bebop and hard-bop st...

Classic Activist Hard Bop Bebop

9.5 Brilliant

6

Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan was a U.S. singer whose wide range and bebop phrasing earned her major postwar acclaim and a 1989 Grammy L...

Virtuoso Classic Bebop Vocals

9.3 Excellent

7

Bud Powell

Bud Powell was an American jazz pianist who translated bebop's fast horn lines to piano, shaping modern jazz keyboard st...

Virtuoso Modern Classic Piano

9.3 Excellent

8

Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown was an American trumpeter admired for lyric virtuosity, co-leading the Brown-Roach quintet from 1954 unti...

Virtuoso Classic Hard Bop Bebop

9.3 Excellent

9

Gil Evans

Gil Evans was a Canadian-born arranger and pianist whose orchestral writing shaped Miles Davis projects such as Birth of...

Classic Arranger Orchestral Piano

9.3 Excellent

10

Ahmad Jamal

Ahmad Jamal was an American jazz pianist whose spacious trio style influenced Miles Davis; At the Pershing: But Not for...

Classic Space Piano Cool

9.2 Excellent

11

Stan Getz

Stan Getz was an American tenor saxophonist famed for his warm tone and for popularizing bossa nova with the 1964 hit Th...

Classic Lyrical Cool Tenor Sax

9.2 Excellent

12

Gerry Mulligan

Gerry Mulligan was an American baritone saxophonist and arranger, central to cool jazz and co-leader of a piano-less qua...

Composer Classic Cool West Coast

9.2 Excellent

13

J.J. Johnson

J.J. Johnson was an American trombonist widely regarded as the leading bebop trombone pioneer, with key Blue Note record...

Composer Classic Trombone Hard Bop

9.2 Excellent

14

Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck was an American jazz pianist and composer whose quartet popularized unusual meters with the 1959 album Time...

Classic Piano Cool West Coast

9.2 Excellent

15

Ray Brown

Ray Brown was an American jazz bassist known for deep swing, a long role in Oscar Peterson's trio from 1951, and major r...

Bass Classic Swing Bebop

9.1 Excellent

16

Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon was an American tenor saxophonist whose big tone helped define bebop, and whose 1986 film Round Midnight e...

Classic Hard Bop Tenor Sax Bebop

9.1 Excellent

17

Roy Haynes

Roy Haynes was an American jazz drummer whose career spanned swing, bebop, and modern jazz, including work with Charlie...

Modern Classic Post Bop Bebop

9.1 Excellent

18

Fats Navarro

Fats Navarro was an American bebop trumpeter, a 1940s pioneer whose brief career influenced Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan,...

Virtuoso Classic Brass Bebop

8.9 Great

19

Jack Teagarden

Jack Teagarden was a U.S. trombonist and singer whose fluid technique and blues feeling made him a leading jazz trombone...

Classic Trombone Brass Swing

8.3 Great

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Anita O'Day

Anita O'Day was an American jazz singer noted for rhythmic phrasing, rising with Gene Krupa's band in 1941 and appearing...

Classic Swing Cool Bebop

8.2 Great