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1. Dizzy -- Dizzy Gillespie
   Dizzy Gillespie is one of the founding fathers of modern jazz and a major figure in 20th-century American music. His puffed cheeks and bent trumpet made him one of the world's most instantly recognizable figures. In 1939, he joined Cab Calloway's band and stayed for two years, then worked briefly with big bands led by Ella Fitzgerald, Claude Hopkins, Les Hite, Lucky Millender, Charlie Barnet, Fletcher Henderson and Benny Carter. In the early 1940's, he and alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, he created the jazz style known as be-bop, a revolution that has become jazz's most induring style. In June of 1945, he led his own small band which later that year was augmented into a big band. During the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Dizzy alternated between leading small and big bands.
2. 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
3. Miles Davis -- Gil Evans
   For the tune "All Blues," Davis again played with the simplest of elements. He took a standard 4/4 time blues and gave it a waltz feel in 6/8. Evans said that was part of Davis' genius — creating a simple figure that becomes much more. The setting allowed alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley to return to his big-band roots.
4. Clifford Brown
   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 pianist Richie Powell and his wife (who was driving) ... perished in the crash. Clifford Brown accomplished a great deal in the short time he had. He started on trumpet when he was 15, and by 1948 was playing regularly in Philadelphia. Fats Navarro, who was his main influence, encouraged Brown, as did Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
5. Abercrombie -- Af Quarterly
   After seeing Chepachet and Salamonie safely to the Panama Canal, Abercrombie began two weeks of patrol~ and escort duty in the Caribbean Sea that ended on 1 August when she entered the canal. Following two days of liberty at Balboa, the destroyer escort got underway for San Diego where she arrived on the 11th. On 22 August, Abercrombie set sail for Hawaii, arriving at Pearl Harbor a week later. For three weeks, the warship conducted training exercises with escort carriers in the Hawaiian Islands before putting to sea on 19 September to escort General W. F. Hase (AP-146) to Manus in the Admiralty Islands.
6. David Sanchez
   David Sanchez is a very calm, very peaceful and very soulful cat. While being strong and sublimely confident, the conversation in his playing is very warm and inviting. The rim of his silver toned tenor gleams in the light as he rolls out a sound that preaches speeches to an audience who sits in awe with ears wide open. Each player takes the proverbial podium and tells a story that affirms the leaders phrases.
7. The Dave Brubeck Quartet
   The Dave Brubeck Quartet was a jazz quartet, founded in 1951 by Dave Brubeck; featuring Paul Desmond on saxophone, and Brubeck on piano[1]. They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Blackhawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, releasing a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin, Jazz Goes to College, and Jazz Goes to Junior College.
8. 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.
9. Rob Thomas -- South Carolina
   Born on a military base in West Germany on February 14, 1972, Robert Kelly “Rob” Thomas spent much of his youth shuttling between his grandmother in South Carolina and his mom in Florida. After dropping out of both high school and his difficult home life, the 17-year-old drifted around the Southeast, hitchhiking and crashing where he could.
10. Ella Fitzgerald -- Career
    Even as age and road-weariness began to take their toll, Ella continued to perform. She put on a memorable show at Norfolk’s Center Theatre (now the Harrison Opera House) in the mid-‘80s, and performed at the Hampton Jazz Festival late in her career. Quintuple bypass surgery in the fall of 1986 didn’t stop her either.

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