Jazz Künstler
Die folgende Liste enthält 30 berühmte Jazzkünstler, ihre jeweiligen Jazzstilrichtungen sowie fünf ihrer bekanntesten Musikstücke:
- Louis Armstrong (New Orleans Jazz, Dixieland Jazz):
- "What a Wonderful World"
- "West End Blues"
- "Hello, Dolly!"
- "St. James Infirmary"
- "When the Saints Go Marching In"
- Duke Ellington (Swing Jazz, Big Band Jazz):
- "Take the 'A' Train"
- "Mood Indigo"
- "In a Sentimental Mood"
- "Sophisticated Lady"
- "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
- Miles Davis (Bebop, Cool Jazz, Modal Jazz):
- "So What"
- "Kind of Blue"
- "All Blues"
- "My Funny Valentine"
- "Freddie Freeloader"
- John Coltrane (Hard Bop, Free Jazz):
- "Giant Steps"
- "My Favorite Things"
- "A Love Supreme"
- "Naima"
- "Blue Train"
- Charlie Parker (Bebop):
- "Ornithology"
- "Confirmation"
- "Now's the Time"
- "Yardbird Suite"
- "All the Things You Are"
- Ella Fitzgerald (Vocal Jazz, Swing Jazz):
- "Summertime"
- "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
- "Mack the Knife"
- "Blue Skies"
- "Cheek to Cheek"
- Billie Holiday (Vocal Jazz):
- "Strange Fruit"
- "God Bless the Child"
- "Summertime"
- "Fine and Mellow"
- "All of Me"
- Thelonious Monk (Bebop, Hard Bop):
- "Round Midnight"
- "Blue Monk"
- "Straight, No Chaser"
- "Epistrophy"
- "Ruby, My Dear"
- Dizzy Gillespie (Bebop, Afro-Cuban Jazz):
- "A Night in Tunisia"
- "Salt Peanuts"
- "Manteca"
- "Con Alma"
- "Groovin' High"
- Benny Goodman (Swing Jazz, Big Band Jazz):
- "Sing, Sing, Sing"
- "Let's Dance"
- "Stompin' at the Savoy"
- "Moonglow"
- "Don't Be That Way"
- Art Blakey (Hard Bop):
- "Moanin'"
- "Blues March"
- "Along Came Betty"
- "A Night in Tunisia"
- "Free for All"
- Herbie Hancock (Post-Bop, Fusion):
- "Chameleon"
- "Watermelon Man"
- "Cantaloupe Island"
- "Maiden Voyage"
- "Rockit"
- Sarah Vaughan (Vocal Jazz, Bebop):
- "Lullaby of Birdland"
- "Misty"
- "Tenderly"
- "Embraceable You"
- "Send in the Clowns"
- Count Basie (Swing Jazz, Big Band Jazz):
- "April in Paris"
- "One O'Clock Jump"
- "Every Day I Have the Blues"
- "Jumpin' at the Woodside"
- "Li'l Darlin'"
- Oscar Peterson (Bebop, Hard Bop):
- "C Jam Blues"
- "Hymn to Freedom"
- "Night Train"
- "Blue Moon"
- "I Got Rhythm"
- Wynton Marsalis (Post-Bop, Modern Jazz):
- "In the Court of King Oliver"
- "Black Codes (From the Underground)"
- "Autumn Leaves"
- "Mood Indigo"
- "Free to Be"
- Chick Corea (Fusion, Post-Bop):
- "Spain"
- "La Fiesta"
- "500 Miles High"
- "Armando's Rhumba"
- "Now He Sings, Now He Sobs"
- Stan Getz (Cool Jazz, Bossa Nova):
- "The Girl from Ipanema"
- "Desafinado"
- "Corcovado"
- "Autumn Leaves"
- "Body and Soul"
- Dave Brubeck (Cool Jazz, West Coast Jazz):
- "Take Five"
- "Blue Rondo à la Turk"
- "Unsquare Dance"
- "In Your Own Sweet Way"
- "The Duke"
- Coleman Hawkins (Swing Jazz, Bebop):
- "Body and Soul"
- "Desafinado"
- "Picasso"
- "April in Paris"
- "Hawk Eyes"
- Wayne Shorter (Hard Bop, Fusion):
- "Footprints"
- "Juju"
- "Speak No Evil"
- "Nefertiti"
- "Yes or No"
- Diana Krall (Vocal Jazz, Cool Jazz):
- "The Look of Love"
- "Fly Me to the Moon"
- "Peel Me a Grape"
- "Just the Way You Are"
- "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)"
- Bobby McFerrin (Vocal Jazz, A cappella):
- "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
- "Drive"
- "Say Ladeo"
- "Freedom Is a Voice"
- "Good Lovin'"
- Pat Metheny (Fusion, Contemporary Jazz):
- "Last Train Home"
- "Bright Size Life"
- "Are You Going with Me?"
- "Letter from Home"
- "Minuano (Six Eight)"
- Lena Horne (Vocal Jazz, Swing Jazz):
- "Stormy Weather"
- "The Lady Is a Tramp"
- "Love Me or Leave Me"
- "Let's Fall in Love"
- "Something to Live For"
- Jimmy Smith (Hard Bop, Soul Jazz):
- "The Sermon"
- "Back at the Chicken Shack"
- "Walk on the Wild Side"
- "Midnight Special"
- "Organ Grinder's Swing"
- Cassandra Wilson (Vocal Jazz, Contemporary Jazz):
- "Strange Fruit"
- "Come On In My Kitchen"
- "Harvest Moon"
- "You Don't Know What Love Is"
- "Redbone"
- Jaco Pastorius (Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock):
- "Portrait of Tracy"
- "The Chicken"
- "Teen Town"
- "Donna Lee"
- "Continuum"
- Stanley Clarke (Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock):
- "School Days"
- "Lopsy Lu"
- "Silly Putty"
- "Song to John"
- "Bass Folk Song No. 3"
- Charles Mingus (Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz):
- "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"
- "Haitian Fight Song"
- "Moanin'"
- "Better Git It in Your Soul"
- "Fables of Faubus"