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1. Miles Davis -- Charlie Parker
   Miles Davis was one of the most diverse innovators of modern jazz. While his career began absorbing the sounds of bebop, he progressed to initiate many other styles of music including cool-jazz, modal jazz, and fusion. Davis's solo ideas incorporated lyricism and subtle phrases that richly contrasted the interpretations of Parker and Coltrane. He was ... well known for assembling all-star musicians to perform on memorable recordings including Kind Of Blue that featured John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Jimmy Cobb, Bill Evans, and Paul Chambers. He popularized the sound of the harmon mute, played the Flugle Horn on select recordings, and defined an era of music. By and large, Miles Davis brought a new dimension to jazz.
2. Charlie Drake -- Miscellaneous
   Charlie is commonly considered one of the greatest jazz musicians, ranked with such players as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Many jazz fans and musicians believe that "Charlie Parker was arguably the greatest saxophonist of all time."
3. Milton Berle -- Charlie Chaplin
   Milton Berle was born in a five-story walkup at 68 West 118th Street in New York City, New York. His father was Moses Berlinger, a paint and varnish salesman. His mother, Sarah (Sadie) Glantz Berlinger, eventually became stagestruck and changed her name to Sandra Berle when Milton became famous. His onstage antics got underway in 1913 when he won a lookalike contest with his impersonation of Charlie Chaplin. Berle appeared a child actor in silent films, beginning with The Perils of Pauline (1914), filmed in Fort Lee, New Jersey with Pearl White. The director told Berle that he would portray a little boy who would be thrown from a moving train.
4. Cheryl Ladd (Charlie's Angels)
   Ladd portrayed Bette Davis' stand-in in the low-budget show business drama Stand-Ins (1997) before starring with her mother in the television film Every Mother's Worst Fear (1998). A year later, she landed her first high-profile role as a popular teenager who tortures Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed (1999). Barrymore, who ... produced the film, offered Ladd the first crack at a role in her company's big-screen adaptation of Charlie's Angels (2000). Not wanting to be stuck completely in the shadow of her mother, she politely declined. Instead, after being named one of the world's 100 Sexiest Women by Stuff magazine, Ladd starred as a strung-out actress vying for an Academy Award in E!'s first original movie, Best Actress (2000). Unfortunately, she followed this clever over-the-top comic performance with The Deadly Look of Love, a trashy television film, and The Specials (2000), a silly feature about the private lives of superheroes.
5. Tony Scott -- Billie Holiday
   ROME (AP) — Jazz musician Tony Scott, a clarinetist, composer and arranger who worked with such greats as Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker, has died, the House of Jazz said Saturday. He was 85.
6. The Blues Band -- South London
   Blues Harp Player & Singer, John O’Leary was born in Clonakilty in the Republic of Ireland in October 1944. He moved with his parents to England in 1955. Interest in music began on hearing Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith and King Oliver on a friend’s record player. His interest in jazz developed and is now a great admirer of Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus. Interest in the blues began on hearing the legendary harmonica player Cyril Davies playing with the great Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated at the Ealing Jazz Club in London in 1962. The Ealing club was really the birth of the British blues movement; it’s where it all began for a lot of people (including The Rolling Stones).
7. Clifford Brown -- Dizzy Gillespie
   Biography: Clifford Brown's death in a car accident at the age of 25 was one of the great tragedies in jazz history. Already ranking with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis as one of the top trumpeters in jazz, Brownie was still improving in 1956. Plus he was a clean liver and was not even driving; the up-and-coming ...Read full biography
8. Miles Davis
   An original, lyrical soloist and a demanding group leader, Miles Davis was the most consistently innovative musician in jazz from the late 1940s through the 1960s. Davis grew up in East St. Louis, and took up trumpet at the age of 13; two years later he was already playing professionally. He moved to New York in September 1944, ostensibly to enter the Institute of Musical Art but actually to locate his idol, Charlie Parker. He joined Parker in live appearances and recording sessions (1945-8), at the same time playing in other groups and touring in the big bands led by Benny Carter and Billy Eckstine.
9. Bill Cosby -- Comedy
   The "Washington Post" reported August 1, 1996 that Bill Cosby tried to get out of a speaking engagement scheduled before 2,000 followers of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. The crowd was supposed to listen to Cosby's comedy act.
10. Jimmy Scott -- Lionel Hampton
    Jimmy Scott was free as a bird -- or so he thought. Having sung with Lionel Hampton and Charlie Parker in the '50s, he was already a profound influence on artists like Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson (you see, Jimmy had Kallman's Syndrome, which meant that he looked like a somewhat androgynous teenager and sang in a mostly female range).

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