RUBY BRAFF
Ruby Braff, born in Boston and his first brush with professional music know him when he frequently visited the district of Storyville in the company of clarinetist, Pee Wee Russell. This cornetist-trumpeter, left ignore the times he lived – the bebop-and chose instead to develop and refine the sounds of swing. His admiration for Louis Armstrong was such that succeeded in developing a proposal consistent with the musical sounds of New Orleans.
In 1953 he moved to New York where he began recording with prominent musicians of the same style. Achieved a remarkable success with an album in the company of trombonist Vic Dickenson, but it was very difficult to find work in town and at one time given to emerging new sound in jazz: Read the rest of this entry »
Born in Frederick (Maryland), trumpeter Lester Bowie came from a family of musicians who put down roots in St. Louis when he was still a child. He began playing the trumpet at an early age, and young came to participate in one or another group of Rhythm & Blues. new graduate married to singer Fontella Bass and moved to Chicago in 1956. A decision was momentous for its future as a musician.
Connee Boswell, and her sisters received Helvetia and Martha – all components of the vocal group “The Boswell Sisters” – a solid instrumental. He started playing the cello, and then moves to the piano, alto sax and trombone. One day in 1925, cornetist Kansas, Emmett Louis Hardy, heard them after the group won a contest amateur and encouraged them to become professionals.
After studying at the “Manassas High School in Memphis and Chicago Conservatory, trumpet player and composer, Booker Little Jr. (1938-1961), began working with Sonny Rollins, who shortly afterwards introduced him to Max Roach. Thus began Booker Little in June 1958, a collaboration aimed at providing extra benefits for an entire year.
Claude Bolling, pianist, composer, arranger and conductor, was born in Cannes (France) on 10 April 1930, where he has lived ever since except during the German occupation. Precocious musician, first studied classical music and in 1944 won the “Tournoi des Amateurs. He studied under Marie Louise”Bob”Colin, and discovered jazz through a classmate. In 1945 he won the amateur contest organized by the Hot Jazz and Hot Club of France in Paris. He created his first band at 16, and made his recording debut at 18.
Buddy Bolden, was the first and brightest star of jazz. A man with all the genetic traits of black Creole from New Orleans. Able to take down any intake of alcohol, womanizing bully with a pattern verging on violence, was proclaimed in the early twentieth century as the best jazz trumpeter of all New Orleans. The Legend of Buddy Bolden was increased by the failure to own any recordings available – disappeared from the jazz scene, well before the recording industry began to walk – and yet those who were fortunate enough to listen, speak of him and with the trumpet sound like the man who played the blues slower and persuasive of all known musicians. 
Arthur Blythe, was born in Los Angeles, California, and small, he asks his mother play the trombone, but she, admirer of the saxophonist, Johnny Hodges, Earl Bostic and Tab Smith, provides an alto. He studied the instrument in San Diego with different teachers, including David Jackson, who was one of Ray Charles. He plays in the student orchestra and attaches himself to popular music (rock and roll, country and gospel) without thereby keep up their admiration for saxophonists of his childhood, primarily, Benny Carter. Participate in various groups, whether in small formations as large orchestras. 
Born in Montreal, pianist Paul Bley came to jazz with an excellent academic education. He studied piano and violin complete the course (1950-1952) at the prestigious Julliard School in New York. Renowned musicians helped him cope with occasional work in clubs, bars and small venues. So he met and became friends with Charles Mingus, Oscar Petifford and even Charlie Parker. In 1953, he recorded an album with the bassist and figure of bebop, Charles Mingus and the exceptional drummer, Art Blakey, who had a remarkable success. In 1955, he moved to Los Angeles and directed his career to musical forms more advanced and progressive. His quintet of the late fifties, included the four members of “Ornette Coleman Quartet original before its formation. 
Real name, Carla Borg, this great composer, orchestra leader and pianist, musically adopted the surname of her husband, also an excellent pianist, Paul Bley. He learned piano and violin as a child with his father, a piano teacher and obtained extensive experience in musical leadership tasks as directed the choir of the Church in their community. Learned theory and deepened his piano technique while still a teenager before moving to New York in 1955, where she met her husband who was the Canadian pianist Paul Bley. 
Jimmy Blanton was the first virtuoso of the bass that was jazz, and as such, extended a long shadow of influence that affects directly or indirectly to all jazz bassists in history. Blanton, was who did better, and all the virtuosity of the double bass in jazz, was the first to do so.