Cool Jazz, Hard Bop, Avant-Garde, Fusion

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Featured Arranger on 'Birth of the Cool' he had a soft, lightweight tone that had simpler more direct lines than Bop-like tweed cloth.

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Gerry Mulligan

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Led the best known big band leaders in the Modern Style and his repertoire featured various styles. He started in the 40's with a dance band, but eventually developed a distinctive style. He played concert music rather than dance with rich modern harmonies. He led a large orchestra (5TP, 5TB, 5Sax, 4 Mellophones). He was a good PR man and discovered talent through experimentation. He was tenacious and durable and started the Jazz Ed Movement.

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Stan Kenton

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One of the first hard-bop players from the 50's, along with the Jazz Messengers he's been working since 1955. This group includes various young talent gathered fro training and polishing. Recorded E.T.A which included complexity, virtuosity, and extended techniques.

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Art Blakey

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He was a pianist, composer and leader. Rather than relying on speed and agility he relied on compactness and clarity. His music showed a logical unfolding of ideas and made clever use of silence. The comping was very structured and he was the most prolific composer in hard bop. He wrote elaborate arrangements.

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Horace Silver

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In spite of his short life he made an impact. He was a successor to Diz and he had a masterful technical control of his music and was more melodic and smoother than Diz. Refined bop.

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Clifford Brown

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He's been popular since the 50's and his style has gone through many changes. In the 50's his stuff was rough with a brittle tone and the phrases were choppy, overall agressive. The 60's led to a more streamlined and less conventional style, and the 70's were simpler and funkier with a broader tone and less speed.

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Sonny Rollins

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He is known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion. He participated in the birth of the electric fusion movement as a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, and in the 1970s formed Return to Forever. He is also known for promoting Scientology.

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Chick Corea

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He is Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted the appreciation of Classical and Jazz music, often focusing on young audiences.

As a Jazz performer and composer he has made display of his extensive knowledge about jazz and jazz history and for being a classical virtuoso. As of 2006, he has made sixteen classical and more than thirty jazz recordings, has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for Music for a jazz recording.

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Wynton Marsallis

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American jazz double bassist best known through his long association with John Coltrane from 1961–1967.[1]

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Jimmy Garrison

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The song he is probably most famous for is Take Five, in which he takes a drum solo that slowly releases itself from the rigidness of the 5/4 time signature. He is a jazz drummer perhaps best known for his twelve and a half-year stint with The Dave Brubeck Quartet. He is frequently noted for playing in the unusual time signatures employed by that group

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Joe Morello

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He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop.

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Freddie Hubbard

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a jazz alto saxophonist of the small combo era of the 1950s and 1960s. Originally from Tampa, Florida, he moved to New York in the mid 1950s. He was the brother of jazz cornetist Nat Adderley

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Cannonball Adderley

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an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years he played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.
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Joe Henderson

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is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.

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McCoy Tyner

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An important fusion player and an American pianist and composer. He is regarded not only as one of the greatest living jazz musicians, but also as one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century.[1] His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", he helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. Later, he was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences.

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Herbie Hancock

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Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential jazz drummers to come to prominence in the 1960s, he first gained fame in the band of trumpeter Miles Davis, and was a pioneer of jazz fusion.

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Tony Williams

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Many of his compositions have become standards. He is widely considered jazz's greatest living composer. has recorded over 20 albums as a leader, and appeared on dozens more with others including Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the late 1950s, Miles Davis's second great quintet in the 1960s and the jazz fusion band Weather Report whose sound was partially the result of his distinctive sound and improv, which he co-led in the 1970s.

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Wayne Shorter

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one of the creators of jazz fusion he co-founded the group Weather Report. Additionally, he made pioneering use of electric piano and synthesizers. He won the "Best Keyboardist" award 30 times from American jazz magazine Down Beat's critics' poll.

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Joe Zawinul

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From 1960 to 1966 he was a member of the John Coltrane quartet, a celebrated recording phase, appearing on such albums as A Love Supreme. He remained active after leaving the John Coltrane group, and led several bands in the late sixties and seventies that are considered highly influential groups. Notable among them was a trio formed with saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Joe Farrell and (ex-Coltrane) bassist Jimmy Garrison, with whom he recorded the Blue Note album Puttin' It Together.

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Elvin Jones

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His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John Taylor, Steve Kuhn, Don Friedman, Denny Zeitlin, Bobo Stenson, Michel Petrucciani and Keith Jarrett,

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Bill Evans