Jazz saxophone players are the instrumental architects of jazz music, from Coleman Hawkins’ first significant recorded tenor work in the early 1920s to Lakecia Benjamin’s 21st-century alto voice, … Read more
Jazz trumpet players form the most storied instrumental lineage in American music, a 100-year succession of innovators who built jazz itself, from Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five recordings of … Read more
Jazz guitarists are instrumentalists who apply jazz harmony, improvisation, and swing rhythm to the guitar, a tradition stretching from Django Reinhardt’s 1930s Gypsy innovations through Charlie Christian’s electrified … Read more
Miles Davis (1926–1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader whose recorded output across six decades produced some of the most influential albums in the history of … Read more
The best jazz albums of all time span more than a century of American music, from Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five recordings of 1925 through the genre-blurring jazz of … Read more
