Jazz: For Absolute Beginners

Nina Simone

Lee Morgan

Art Blakey

Bud Powell

Gerry Mulligan

Ron Carter

Duke Ellington

Sonny Rollins

Paul Desmond

Benny Golson

Charles Mingus

Clark Terry

Coleman Hawkins

Connie Kay

Dannie Richmond

Jimmy Knepper

Percy Heath

Jon Hendricks

Roy Haynes

Bud Shank

Gary Burton

Jim Hall

Cozy Cole

Johnny Hodges

Buster Bailey

Lawrence Brown

Jimmy Giuffre

Art Taylor

Bobby Timmons

Jymie Merritt

George Duvivier

Larry Coryell

Jimmie Smith

Walter Booker

Roy McCurdy

Virgil Jones

Steve Swallow

George Tucker

Yolande Bavan

J.C. Higginbotham

Everett Barksdale

Cat Anderson

Shorty Rogers

Jimmy Hamilton

Harold Vick

Dave Lambert

Marty Napoleon

Milt Bernhart

Gildo Mahones

Henry "Red" Allen

Albert Dailey

Curtis Porter

Lloyd Trotman

Boots Brown And His Blockbusters

Bill Triglia

Clarence Shaw

Frank Patchen

Roy Harte

Frankie Dunlop

Warren Chiasson

Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan

Hugh Walker

Jimmy Wyble

Howard Ramsey