1. Mª Fernanda Garzón O.

2.  New Orleans 4º August 1901
 He came from a very poor family.
 Was a great Trumpet player. He knew Mr.
Farnofsky, and he gave him his first Trumpet.
 He was known as “satchmo”
and “Pops”
 He got married 4 times.
 New York 8º July 1971

3.  He was one of the first in changing from Blues to Jazz
 Thanks to him the trumpet emerged as a solo
instrument in jazz.
 He was best known for his virtuosity with the cornet
and trumpet.
 He popularized the Scat singing.
 As a trumpet player, he had a unique tone and an
extraordinary talent for melodic improvisation.

4. From 1923 to 2006 he recorded 31 albums. The most
important ones are:
 1923 Louis Armstrong and King Oliver (Milestone)
 1928 Hot fives and sevens, Vol 3.
 1963 Hello! Dolly (Mca)
 1968 What a wonderful world (Verve)
 1968 Disney Song the Satchmo way (Disney)
 2006 Complete New York town hall and Boston
symphony hall concerts (Definitive)

5.  Hamlet 23° September 1926.
 All his life he was involved in music, his grandfathers
were religious and he used to sing in their church.
 Almost all his family died when he was very young so
he was raised by his mother.
 He died because of a Liver
cancer in New York in
July 27° 1967.

6.  Was known as “Traine”
 He played many instruments like: Clarinet, Alto Horn
Flute and Alto, Tenor and Soprano Saxophone.
 The influence Coltrane has had on music spans many
different genres and musicians. Coltrane's massive
influence on jazz, both mainstream and avant-garde,
began during his lifetime and continued to grow after
his death.

7.  Between 1951 and 1967 he recorded:
1. More than 50 albums as leader (1957- 1967)
2. With Miles Davis 19 albums (1961- 1958)
3. With Thelonious Monk 6 albums( 1957- 1958)
4. And with other leaders more than 50 albums (1951-
1962) : Some of them are: Dizzy Gillespie, Paul
Chambers, Tommy Flanagan, Sonny Clark.

8.  Ray Charles Robinson was born in Albany, Georgia,
United States September 23, 1930
 He had a difficult childhood because he got blind
when he was very young and his family was poor so his
mother sent him to a special institute.
 He died in Beverly Hills,
in June 10, 2004

9.  Composer, musician, arranger, bandleader
 The influences upon his music were mainly jazz,
blues, rhythm and blues and country artists of the day
such as Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan,
Charles Brown and Louis Armstrong.
 His playing reflected influences from country blues,
barrelhouse and stride piano styles.

10.  He recorded 55 studio albums
 Also he recorded 7 Live albums
 And 127 Singles
 His most famous song is What'd I Say
 Grammy Awarded Works :“Let The
Good Times Roll” “Living for the City”
“A Song for You” “Heaven Help Us All “
“Here We Go Again”

11.  Her real name was Eleanora Fagan se was born in April
7, 1915 in Philadelphia
 She also had a complicated life because her mother
was very young when she borned and her father was a
musician as well but he abandoned them when Billie
was a baby then her mother left her with some
relatives.
 She died in July 17,
1959 in New York City.

12.  Was an American jazz singer and songwriter.
 She had a seminal influence on jazz and pop
singing.
 Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz
instrumentalists
 She pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing
and tempo.

13.  Strange Fruit, is her most famous song
 The discography of Billie Holiday consists
of:
1. 12 studio albums
2. 3 live albums
3. 24 compilations, and one box set.

14.  (Newport News - Virginia April 25,
1917 – Beverly Hills - California June
15, 1996) Also known as the "First
Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and
"Lady Ella", was an American jazz
vocalist.
 She was noted for her purity of tone,
impeccable diction, phrasing and
intonation, and a "horn-like"
improvisational ability, particularly
in her scat singing.

15.  The career history and archival material from Ella's
long career are housed in the Archives Center at the
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History,
while her personal music arrangements are at The
Library of Congress. Her extensive cookbook collection
was donated to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard
University, and her published sheet music collection is
at the Schoenberg Library in New York City.
 In 1997, Newport News, Virginia created a music
festival with Christopher Newport University to honor
Ella Fitzgerald in her birth city. The Ella Fitzgerald
Music Festival is designed to teach the region's youth
of the musical legacy of Fitzgerald and jazz.

16.  Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great
American Songbook. Over the course of her 59-year
recording career, she sold 40 million copies of her 70-
plus albums, won 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded
the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan and the
Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush.
 1950: 15 Albums.
 1960: 20 Albums.
 1970: 9 Albums.
 1980: 5 Albums.
 Live Albums: 23.

17.  Miles Dewey Davis III (Alton –
Illinois May 26, 1926 – Santa
Monica – California September
28, 1991) was an American jazz
musician, trumpeter, bandleader,
and composer. Widely considered
one of the most influential
musicians of the 20th century,
Miles Davis was, with his musical
groups, at the forefront of several
major developments in jazz
music, including bebop, cool jazz,
hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz
fusion.

18.  Miles Davis is regarded as one of the most innovative,
influential and respected figures in the history of
music. He has been described as “one of the great
innovators in jazz”. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of
Rock & Roll noted "Miles Davis played a crucial and
inevitably controversial role in every major
development in jazz since the mid-'40s, and no other
jazz musician has had so profound an effect on rock.
Miles Davis was the most widely recognized jazz
musician of his era, an outspoken social critic and an
arbiter of style—in attitude and fashion—as well as
music".

19.  His album Kind of Blue is the best-selling album in the
history of jazz music.
Releases
↙Studio albums 48
↙Live albums 36
↙Compilation albums 38
↙Soundtracks 3
↙Box sets 17
↙Collaborations 72
↙Videos 27
↙Tunes 57