Kees Kranenburg was a Dutch drummer. In 1926 he founded The Resonance Seven, which later became The Ramblers. In the 1960s he played in the orchestra of a local tv station and joined the Roy Dennis Combo. youtu.be/UHuJxbQUJtU... #BluesSky #JazzSky #1975

Roger Chaput was a French guitarist who played in the legendary Quintette du Hot Club de France in the 1930s. He later worked with Bill Coleman, Buck Clayton, Gus Viseur a.o. and recorded two albums as leader. youtu.be/H9EmoOGYnhs... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1994

Theodros Mitiku was an Ethiopian saxophonist, member of the Souk Ekos Band. In the 1960s and 70s he worked as a sideman with the big names of the Ethio-Jazz scene. youtu.be/id16AeLqYdU... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2013

Ma Rainey bridged the gap between vaudeville and blues performances. She started her career around 1904, recorded in 1924. Among the jazz musicians who played with the Mother of the Blues are Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins. youtu.be/-ca1be-A1RU... #BluesSky #JazzSky #1939

D. Boone, singer and guitarist of the San Pedro, Ca. based activist punk-rock trio The Minutemen, passed away in a car accident OTD in 1985. Extra kudos to Ma Boone, who urged and taught him to play the guitar. youtu.be/VQPQUrB01Ks... #MusicSky

Roswell Rudd was a trombonist and composer. He started as a Dixieland musician, but is remembered for his work in the free and avant-jazz idioms. He recorded as bandleader and worked extensively with Archie Shepp. youtu.be/qpNXYjHNRuo... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2017

Hans Koller was an Austrian saxophonist and bandleader. In the 1950s played with local and touring artists such as Gillespie, Montgomery a.o. In the 1970s he started his own band Free Sound wrote a ballet suite and worked as an abstract painter. youtu.be/nK4i5yJ9css... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2003

Polish jazz violinist and saxophonist Michal Urbaniak has died at 82. Over his long career, he played with artists such as Chick Corea, Mikes Davis, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report. Urbaniak live in Oslo in 1972. Length: 38:59. #RIPMichalUrbaniak m.youtube.com/watch?v=3oD3...

1/ Bud Powell’s album ‘The Lonely One’ led me to the French photographer Jean-Pierre Leloir. From the 1950s on, he captured actors and other artists in France, including jazz musicians. jazzimagesrecords.co... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2010

Mick Mulligan was an English trumpeter and bandleader. He stuck to trad jazz with George Melly “(and their), marketing-indifferent, boozy English amateurism, and their devotion to a New Orleans and Chicago jazz method” (The Guardian). youtu.be/CAwp27etK64... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2006

Walter Page was an influential bassist and bandleader of the Blue Devils and later became a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. Until his sudden death OTD in 1957 he mainly worked as a freelancer. youtu.be/tBHduWN5KSQ... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1957

Pete King was a British tenor saxophonist, co-founder and long-time manager of Ronnie Scott’s jazz club. He played with Britain’s finest and negotiated to lift the ban on American musicians in the UK. www.youtube.com/watc... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2009

1/ Milt Hinton is praised as a double bassist. As a photographer documenting 20th century jazz life. He started on the violin, but soon shifted to the double bass. He recorded as a member of the Cab Calloway’s orchestra from 1936 until 1950. youtu.be/bh5XS-NChcg... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2000

Trudy Pitts was a classically trained organist/keyboardist. She worked with Grover Washington, Jr., Etta James, Lionel Hampton a.o. www.youtube.com/watc... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2010

1/ Herb Geller was a saxophonist, composer and arranger. He was active from 1946 until 2013 and worked with US and European jazz artists. In the early 1950s he played with Shelly Manne, Quincy Jones, Chet Baker a.o., and recorded as bandleader. youtu.be/KRCy7o8gi9s... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2013

Drummer Bill Douglass worked with Benny Goodman and Ben Webster. After his military service during WWII he played and recorded with Buddy Collette, Art Tatum and many others. Douglass was very active in the American Federation of Musicians. youtu.be/W_E_yYiuCxE... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1994

Page Cavanaugh was a pianist, vocalist and arranger. He scored some hits in the 1940s. Cavanaugh recorded with Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme a.o. youtu.be/JgebzOYdzVw... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2008

Miklós Víg belonged to the first generation of Hungarian (jazz) singers who got recorded. He became a star of the Deutsche Gramophone label. He was murdered OTD in 1944 by members of a Hungarian fascist organisation. youtu.be/qExzNNMUyPE... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1944

Alain Romans was a Polish-French jazz pianist and composer of film music (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, 1953, a.o.). He worked with Joséphine Baker and Django Reinhardt. archive.org/details/... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1988

Saxophonist Warne Marsh worked with free jazz pioneer Lennie Tristano in the 1950s and with Supersax in the 1970s. He recorded his best known work with the rhythm section of that band. youtu.be/vJmSy-0mI_w... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1987

1/ Noble Sissle was a jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright. He started to work with James Reese Europe, whose importance for the African-American music scene of New York City in the 1910s cannot be overstated. youtu.be/hyOsDbDaRdU... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1975

1/ Don Ellis was a trumpeter, drummer, composer and bandleader. In the 1960s he was part of the NYC avant-garde jazz scene. He worked and recorded with Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Jaki Byard, Paul Bley, a.o. youtu.be/LZ1-AWPlC1Y... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1978

Erskine Tate was a violinist and leader of the Vendome Orchestra, which in played theatres during silent movies and which had a jazz and classical repertoire. Louis Armstrong, Stump Evans, Fats Waller a.o. were at one time members of that band. youtu.be/D_FbZRsQfYg... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1978

At the age of 6 Stanley Cowell wanted to become a pianist after seeing Art Tatum, a family friend. Cowell played with Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz a.o. Early 1970s he co-founded the record label Strata-East. youtu.be/nx1GHB1HPPQ... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2020

Richard Heckstall-Smith was a British saxophonist who started in the London jazz scene of the 1950s and later got involved in blues, rock and fusion bands. In the late 1960 he became a member of the jazz rock band Collosseum. youtu.be/HNL2US6rS1M... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2004

1/ The career of Brazilian all-round singer Sylvia Telles started in the mid 1950s. She worked with Antônio Carlos Jobim and with Barney Kessel in the US. youtu.be/9u5TjEmwV5o... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1966

Fess Williams was a saxophonist and clarinetist famous in the 1920s hot jazz and swing era. In the 1930s he switched careers and became active in real estate. www.youtube.com/watc... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1975

Keith Christie was an English trombonist who worked with John Dankworth, Vic Ash, and many other British jazz greats. He toured Europe with Benny Goodman in the early 1970s. youtu.be/qp_kio9hMlw... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1980

Carlos Lyra was part of the first generation of Brazilian Bossa Nova singers and composers. He worked with Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto. After the military coup in 1964, he lived in LA and toured with Stan Getz. youtu.be/fdlhS2_Ag5M... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2023

Thomas Delaney was a songwriter, pianist and singer. His songs were recorded by jazz and blues artists (the Original Dixieland Jass Band, Count Basie, Bix Beiderbecke, Big Joe Williams, Bukka White, Toots Thielemans, a.o.). youtu.be/RC00Nz-eepA... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1963

Leo Mathisen was a Danish composer, arranger, singer and bandleader in the 1930s and 40s. Originally inspired by Fats Waller, he absorbed bebop influences in his later career. youtu.be/heyU4E3pcHc... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1969

Jack Jenny was a trombonist, trumpeter, composer and bandleader. His career took off in the late 1920s. Highly respected during the Big Band era, he is a bit forgotten these days. youtu.be/8ieW6ssxPKY... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1945

Before the Korean War Pianist John Williams played with John Bothwell and Charlie Parker. After his service he worked with Stan Getz, Cannonball Adderley, Zoot Sims, a.o. He recorded two albums as a leader in the 1950s. youtu.be/RA0a88skRho... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2018

John Critchinson was an English pianist, who worked with locals like Ronnie Scott, Tubby Hayes and with touring musicians such as Chet Baker, Joe Henderson a.o. He recorded with the fusion jazz duo Morrissey–Mullen. www.youtube.com/watc... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2017

Pianist, composer and arranger Eddie Beal toured China in the 1930s with Buck Clayton, freelanced in LA, worked with Red Callender, Tommy Dorsey a.o. In the 1940s and 1950s he was a session musician. youtu.be/Hq_Ar_gWccg... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1984

Bob Brookmeyer was a trombonist, pianist, arranger and composer. He recorded as a bandleader and recorded with Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, and many more. www.youtube.com/watc... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2011

1/ Not many jazz musicians were kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to play piano three nights in a row at a birthday party for Al Capone. Fats Waller was. Or so he said. True or not, welcome to the World of Fats Waller. youtu.be/orykZBD9nQA... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1943

Sam Jones was a bassist and composer who recorded as bandleader and as sideman with Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley a.o. youtu.be/CXjeT_WWkBA... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1981

Early on saxophonist Frank Morgan was hailed as Charlie Parker’s successor, which resulted in a lot of praise and a lot of drug arrests in the first part of his career. He recorded as bandleader and sideman with Art Farmer, Kenny Clarke a.o. youtu.be/bZR7pHnIq3g... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2007

In his almost 60 year career trumpeter Conte Candoli played in many big bands (a.o. Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie), and with a host of other top artists such as Gerry Mulligan, Barney Kessel, Frank Sinatra and many more. youtu.be/Ntt4maN7qSs... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2001

Walt Levinsky was a saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He worked with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Benny Goodman, and later the NBC Staff Orchestra. Late 1960s, he played with Artie Shaw, Tony Bennet, Frank Sinatra a.o. youtu.be/CyarodmuIhQ... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1999

Mongezi Feza was a South African trumpeter, flautist and a member of The Blue Notes. He moved to Europe, played with (art) rock musician Rober Wyatt and with ex-Blue Notes musicians. youtu.be/7gIzKiRdg3w... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1975

Enjoying the Dutch Suzan Veneman Sextet #MusicSky #JazzSky

In her 50 year long career Nancy Wilson recorded +70 albums, won 3 Grammy Awards, was called a blues, R&B, pop, soul and jazz singer. She appeared in TV shows such as I spy, Hawaii Five-0, the Cosby Show a.o. youtu.be/H6ocrBiug2A... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2018

Rune Öfwerman was a Swedish pianist and bandleader. He is one of the many prominent musicians during Sweden’s golden jazz era. He played with locals and accompanied touring artists from the US. youtu.be/DglwbI6wDts... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2013

Fess Johnson was a pianist and leader of the band Paradise Ten. He recorded in the second half of the 1920s. In the 1940s he worked as a freelancer. youtu.be/aJhxlswbw1c... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1959

Joe Castro was a West Coast pianist. He played in Teddy Edward’s quartet and recorded two albums as a leader. youtu.be/ugppSR9zQas... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2009

Ronnie Ross was a British saxophonist who worked with local jazz greats such as Ted Heath, John Dankworth a.o. He tutored David Bowie, recorded with the Beatles and Lou Reed (Walk on the Wild Side). youtu.be/KQKXt5sztzM... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1991

Oscar Klein was an Austrian-American multi-instrumentalist who is known for his rather traditional style. He played and recorded extensively in the US and Europe with the Dutch Swing College Band, Lionel Hampton, Joe Zawinul and many others. youtu.be/JSWeSFVfAuw... #MusicSky #JazzSky #2006

1/ In the 1930s singer and native American Mildred Bailey was ‘the Queen of Swing’. She pushed Bing Crosby to perform, who in turn helped her to connect with bandleader Paul Whiteman. She worked with Eddie Lang, the Dorseys, Benny Goodman a.o. www.youtube.com/watc... #MusicSky #JazzSky #1951