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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.