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Lately I have been listening to some Charles Mingus. He was a Jazz bass player and very good. I'd love
to learn some of his music. Also I love to listen to Miles Davis as he is my favorite Jazz player. He was
a great improviser and rarely followed the rules of strict Jazz. He did his own thing and broke free of
the box that most Jazz players stay in. I also love John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman,
Glenn Miller, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, Sidney Bechet, Thelonious Monk, Louis
Armstrong, Artie Shaw, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Count Basie, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Nat
King Cole, Coleman Hawkins, Art Blakey, Fletcher Henderson, ect.
I do listen to Jazz vocalists like Billy Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James,
Sammy Davis Jr., Cab Callaway, Doris Day, Lena Horne, Dinah Washington, ect. Also, I'm not super
knowledgeable about any of these Jazz musicians Like I could probably only tell you a handful of Jazz
songs offhand and most of the Jazz songs I could not recite by heart or even begin to sing or hum any
part of it. Jazz up until now I have really only listened for fun and not to really know the songs like I
can do with most of today's music. However, I do know the artists. Honestly, its hard to tell many of
the artists just by listening to the songs. At least for me it is.