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Table of jazz legend's notable accomplishments[edit]

Jazz Legend's Notable Accomplishments^[1]

Name	Instrument & Roles	Style	Active years	Greatest achievements
Buddy Bolden (1877–1931)	cornet/bandleader	Old School jazz pioneer	1900/1907	Pioneer in Ragtime and Jazz/loud/skilled improviser/impressed younger musicians[2]
Jelly Roll Morton[3] (1890–1941)	piano/bandleader/composer/minstrel shows	Progressive ragtime/Stomp	1904/1940	Pivotal figure in early jazz/first jazz arranger/jazz promotion/hustling/over 100 compositions
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971)	cornet/trumpet/composer/singer/actor	Old School/Dixieland	1920/1970	Improvised solo/world entertainer/America's 1st jazz ambassador/strong vocalist[4] /1949 cover of Time magazine /Inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame 2017 as a 20th Century Early Music Influence/50 year career
Sidney Bechet (1897–1959)	Primarily clarinet/soprano saxophone/tenor saxophone/piano/double bass/drums	Dixieland	1920/1958	master of improvisation (both individual and collective) with wide vibrato/dominating sound/Jazz internationalization
Duke Ellington (1899–1974)	piano/composer/big band conductor	Big band Swing	1930/1967	Compositions/sophisticated elegance/tailoring music to soloists/most recorded jazz composer[5]/1956 Time magazine cover
Charlie Christian (1916–1942)	electric guitar	Bebop pioneer	1934/1942	Developed bebop/paved way for electric guitar/creative melodic improviser/twice (1940 & 1941) Metronome All Stars member
Coleman Hawkins (1904–1969)	tenor saxophone	Swing/big bands/played with beboppers	1921/1965	Influential solo on "Body and Soul"/mentor to many, including Thelonious Monk/promoted tenor sax/encyclopedic knowledge of chords and harmonies/harmonically advanced style[6]
Lester Young (1909–1959)	alto saxophone/clarinet	Big band swing	1940/1967	Light airy unforced sound/excellent use of the blues
Count Basie (1904–1984)	piano/big band conductor/combos	Big band swing Kansas City style	1938/1965	Distinctively bright tinkling piano style
Charlie Parker (1920–1955)	alto saxophone	Big bands/bebop/combos	1942/1953	Developed Bebop/enlarged harmonic pallet [7]/Effortless improvisations
Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993)	trumpet/big band conductor/combos	Bebop/Afro-cuban jazz	1940/1991	Developed Bebop/Influenced players[8]/International jazz promoter
Thelonious Monk (1917–1982)	piano/bandleader/composer	Stride[9]/Bebop/Monkisms[10]	1940/1970	Developed bebop/composed jazz standards/idiosyncratic style in fashion & music/1964 cover of Time magazine [11]
Max Roach (1924–2007)	drums	Bebop/hard bop/free jazz	1940/2004	Pioneered Bebop]/Developed new musical timekeeping on "ride" cymbal instead of bass drum/Civil Rights movement composer/sought new forms of musical expression
Miles Davis (1926–1991)	trumpet/electrified trumpet/bandleader/composer	Bebop/hard bop/cool/modal/jazz-rock fusion	1946/1991	Cool persona and dresser[12]/Stylist innovator/At the forefront of bebop, hard-bop, orchestral jazz, modal jazz, jazz-rock fusion and techno-funk

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1. ↑ See for examples: "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present," Jazz Times, published November 2, 2017.
2. ↑ Wikipedia: Buddy Bolden confirms his greatest achievements under the sub-heading "Musical career and early decline":
   “ . . . known as King Bolden (see Jazz royalty), and his band was popular in New Orleans (the city of his birth) from about 1900 until 1907, when he was incapacitated by schizophrenia (then called dementia praecox). Bolden was known for his loud sound and improvisation. He made a big impression on younger musicians.”
3. ↑ See these further biographies and discographies:
   * Ferdinand "Jelly Roll Morton" Lamothe
   * Doctor Jazz's Jelly Roll Morton website
   * Doctor Jazz's Jelly Roll late news and references
4. ↑ See the only known footage of Armstrong recording at Time magazine's Rare footage of Armstrong in recording studio.
5. ↑ According to Jazz by Gary Giddins and Scott Deveaux, New York: W.W. Norton, 2009. (ISBN 978-0-393-06861-0), Ellington compositions are the most recorded in jazz history.
6. ↑ Scott Yanow's Coleman Hawkins biography.
7. ↑ As said at Mark Warner's FERMENTATION: The Daily Wine Blog: “(Parker) gave to the emerging Be-Bop artists a new harmonic paradigm that filled in the sound that progressive jazz artists were exploring as they moved away from the swing genre. Parker's great innovation was his discovery, out of his own imagination, of how to play any note and resolve it in the chord so that it would sound harmonically right.”
8. ↑ Wikipedia: Dizzy Gillespie reports that Gillespie taught and influenced trumpeters Miles Davis, Jon Faddis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione, and balladeer Johnny Hartman.
9. ↑ Wikipedia: Thelonious Monk describes Monk's early playing career, “as "hard-swinging," with the addition of runs in the style of Art Tatum. Monk's stated influences included Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and other early stride pianists.”
10. ↑ Wikipedia: Thelonious Monk describes Monk's singular style: “Monk's compositions and improvisations feature dissonances and angular melodic twists and are consistent with his unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of switched key releases, silences, and hesitations.” (bold not in original)
11. ↑ "Jazz: The Loneliest Monk," Time magazine, Friday, Feb. 28, 1964.
12. ↑ The Guardian newspaper reports that “Davis was the best-dressed man of the 20th century. Starting out, he'd customise his pawnshop Brooks Brothers suits, cutting notches in the lapels in imitation of the Duke of Windsor. After 1949's Birth of the Cool, he favoured the Ivy League look of European tailoring. In the 60s he went for slim-cut Italian suits and handmade doeskin loafers. He was always the coolest-looking man in the room.