ELVIN JONES
The youngest brother, Jones, Elvin Ray Jones (Pontiac, 1927) began his career with his brothers, the magnificent trumpeter Thad Jones and the extraordinary pianist, Hank Jones, before starting his solo career in the fifties hand from the bebop musicians such as Charles Mingus and Bud Powell.
And her skill on the drums began to attract the attention in the program of the best musicians of the era and thus worked with virtually every great jazz from the forties and fifties: Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis at meetings of the Village Vanguard in 1955, with the group’s extraordinary trombonist Jay Jay Johnson from 1956 to 1957, with the extraordinary trumpeter Donald Byrd in 1958, and the final step in his career and which will go down in jazz history, their extraordinary work with saxophonist, John Coltrane, in their different groups between 1960 and 1965. Read the rest of this entry »
Al Jolson (1886-1950) will always be remembered as the hero of the first film in the history of film sound completely. It was in 1927, and the title: “The Jazz Singer”. Born in Lithuania, his family emigrated to the United States in 1893. His musical beginnings were in 1898 in New York and then spent the 1910s performing in vaudeville theaters and shows. His debut was on Broadway in the musical: “La Belle Paree” in 1911 at the Winter Garden Theater. 
The trumpeter Bunk Johnson, belongs to that class of legendary musicians of the early era of African American music when he still had not been invented the gramophone and the musicians played at social events in the city, in the gambling dens and brothels of the neighborhood prohibited New Orleans, “Storyville”. It also has to Bunk Johnson, met and played the legendary cornetist Buddy Bolden, who was said – there is no record to prove it – there never was a cornet player like him.Since 1894, Bunk Johnson was part of the orchestra Adam Oliver, with whom he remained until 1914. He had previously gone to New York, Dallas and San Francisco in 1903 and when I return to New Orleans entered the 
Born February 1, 1891 in New Brunswick (New Jersey), this pianist absolutely relevant in the history of jazz – is one of the basic figures of the evolution of ragtime to jazz – began his career very young in the slums of New York and at the time, the pianists had to fend for themselves, or with the accompaniment, as much of a battery. Johnson was a musician tremendously inventive and full of improvisation and vigor. He was a convinced his black condition prevented him from jumping to fame and that it could not be changed. 
Jay Jay Johnson (1924-2001) is in the history of jazz and in particular in the evolution of the trombone, which is the Charlie Parker alto sax, or Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet. Even today, he was not born from the point of view of style, has brought something new to the musical language established by Johnson, for over half a century. Born on January 22, 1924 in Indianapolis (USA), and childhood goes smoothly and when he was eleven, his parents began studying the piano. Three years later, the institute heard the first jazz records and some friends invite you to participate in the university orchestra occupy the vacant trombone. You never leave your instrument. 
Singer, guitarist and composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim, was born into a humble family located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. When he was three years old, his parents separated and he and his sister stayed with their mother, who would marry again soon after. While still young his family moved to Ipanema Beach, then still untapped and began his music studies. With what he most enjoyed was playing the piano. His first musical steps gives them a new movement called bossa nova, a blend of samba, jazz and Afro-American music that was played at the premises of Copacabana. His work was so important that it became the highest representative of this musical trend. 
Born in Logrono in 1963. At the age of fourteen he began his studies of jazz guitar, who later completed studies with classical guitar at the Conservatoire de Logrono. 
Eddie Jefferson (1915-1979) a former tap dancer and singer, had the idea one day in 1952, put words to the beautiful and extraordinary improvisation saxophonist James Moody, had made to the ballad “I’m in The Mood For Love “in 1949 with Swedish musicians. After him came many others, even with great success as was the case of Brown, King Pleasure, but Jefferson was the first. And with the vocal style was born known as “vocalese. 
The Belgian multi-instrumentalist, Bobby Jaspar (could play the tenor sax, clarinet, flute, baritone saxophone and bass clarinet) was raised by his aunt when his father, a well known painter of Liege died suddenly. She owed her love of music since childhood and his love for jazz. In Dixieland I used to play clarinet in a group of teenagers in the neighborhood until he joined the group and Pierre Raoul Faisant Robert who saw the future of the emerging bebop jazz. Thus was born the “Bop Shost” who achieved international fame performing in France and Germany coming to play even with Peanust Holland and Don Byas.