Occupation-Entertainer-Jazz Band Leader
Grant Green (1935-1979)
American jazz guitarist, composer, and bandleader Grant Green, who recorded more than 30 albums, was an only child born to...
Teddy Wilson (1912-1986)
Orchestral pianist, violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger of the Swing to Bebop eras, Teddy Wilson was born Theodore Shaw Wilson...
Buddy Johnson (1915-1977)
Woodrow Wilson “Buddy” Johnson was a popular bandleader and recording artist in the 1940s and 1950s whose compositions and arrangements...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935-1977)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute, and many other instruments. Kirk was born...
Jazz in Occupied China: Black Jazzmen at the Japanese Prison Camp in Weihsien, China during World War II
Desmond Power, a third-generation British subject born in Tientsin (now Tianjin), China in 1923, was incarcerated along with 1,500 other...
Earl “Fatha” Hines (1903-1983)
Earl “Fatha” Hines was one of the most influential Jazz pianists during the twentieth century. His “trumpet style” piano playing...
Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
Louis Daniel (Louie) Armstrong is perhaps the most important and influential person in the history of jazz music, swing music,...
George Morrison (1891-1974)
George Morrison dreamed of playing violin with a major orchestra. As things stood for black musicians in the early twentieth...
