BUNK JOHNSON
REAL NAME: JOHNSON WILLIAM GEARY
BORN IN: New Orleans (Louisiana)
BIRTH DATE: 1879. 27 DECEMBER
DIED IN: New Orleans (Louisiana)
DEATH DATE: 1949. 7 JULY. ——— 
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 Read the rest of this entry »
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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. 
Keith Jarrett (Allentown, 1945), is one of the great talents of jazz that emerged in the last thirty years. Also able to play the piano, guitar, sax, flute, harpsichord and organ, Jarrett said from his childhood by his precocity and his musical qualities. 
The son of a priest, got his first experience as an artist to sing in the church choir. After earning his master’s degree in psychology, Jarreau worked as a social worker, but decided to move to Los Angeles and try his luck in show business playing small clubs on the West Coast. In the mid sixties he recorded an LP titled “1965″ but remained a stranger, and did not enter the studio for ten years.