Music
1913-1922
From the Original Dixieland Jazz Band to Mamie Smith to the New Orleans Rhythm Kings…
1923-1926
From King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band to Bix and his Gang to Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers…
1927-1931
From Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five to the Chicagoans to Don Redman’s Orchestra…
1932-1937
From Benny Carter to Benny Goodman’s Orchestra to Billie Holiday with Lester Young…
1938-1942
From Count Basie’s Orchestra to the Benny Goodman sextet to Duke Ellington with Jimmie Blanton, Billy Strayhorn and Ben Webster…
1943-1945
From the Eddie Condon Mob to Don Byas to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie…
1946-1951
From Charlie Parker with Miles Davis to Bud Powell to Thelonious Monk…
1952-1957
From Art Blakey to Clifford Brown and Max Roach to Duke Ellington at Newport…
1958-1962
From Miles Davis to Ella Fitzgerald to Ornette Coleman…
1963-1966
From the classic John Coltrane quartet to Mingus to Wayne Shorter…
1967-1970
From Cecil Taylor to Albert Ayler to Sun Ra…