Charlie “Bird” Parker

Charlie Parker (born August 29, 1920 as Charles Christopher Parker Jr. in Kansas City; and died 12 March 1955 in New York) was an American musician (saxophonist and composer), considered one of the creators and performers outstanding Bebop to the one of the most important and influential musicians in jazz history was.

From 1942 he worked with the legendary jam sessions at Monroe’s and Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem, where he put together with Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk substantial foundation for modern jazz.

He played for the time bold dissonances and rhythmic shifts, but these were all influenced by his feeling for melodic coherence. Even in very fast pieces he could concise and consistent to improvise with high intensity. The early 1950s began the decline of the health alto saxophonist who had been addicted to drugs since his youth. His last appearance was on 5 March 1955 in the eponymous New York jazz club Birdland.

Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III. (May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois, died 28 September 1991 in Santa Monica, California) was an American jazz trumpeter-flugelhorn player, composer and bandleader.

Davis is one of the most important figures in jazz history. He was known for his improvisations with few and long notes. So he created a great contrast to the musicians of his time, especially in bebop. All in all, Davis put conceptually always new foundation by never conservative insisted on a jazz style, but always went with the times and experimented with young musicians. Countless jazz musicians owe their breakthrough collaboration with Davis.

John Coltrane

John William Coltrane (born September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina died 17 July 1967 in New York City) was an American jazz saxophonist (alto saxophone at first, since the early 1950s almost exclusively tenor and soprano saxophone).

Artie Shaw

Artie Shaw (May 23, 1910 in New York City, New York, died 30 December 2004 in Thousand Oaks, California; actually Arthur Jacob Arshawsky) was an American jazz clarinetist, arranger, composer, bandleader and author.

Ben Pollack

Ben Pollack (born June 22, 1903 in Chicago; † 7 June 1971 in Palm Springs) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

Pollack began his musical career in the early 1920s and was a member of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings are known in which he remained for three years and recorded 1922, his first record. In 1924 he moved to the West Coast of the United States, where he formed early in 1925 his first band with which he performed in the Venice Ballroom, 1926 the establishment of a major orchestra was under his name, the first in Chicago in the South More hotel and then one year in New York’s Central Park was playing. This first large white band had much success in the following years and later helped many well-known soloists and bandleaders, including Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Yank Lawson, Charlie Spivak and Jack Teagarden, for their own careers. The first was of eleven Hiterfolgen “Sweet Sue-Just You” in July 1928. In the 1930s and 1940s, however, there were frequent personnel changes, and even complete resolution of his orchestra, as Pollack came into conflict with the soloists. A tour to the West Coast in 1935 ended with the musicians returned without Pollack and finally formed the core of the band then founded by Bob Crosby. In the last recording session with Harry James in September 1936 was also Pollack last chart success “Through ‘the Coutesy of Love. ” Benny Goodman discovered James by these shots and committed him.