Louie Armstrong and and Duke Ellington to name two.
Jazz Composers Workshop was created in 1955.
The New Jazz Composers Octet was created in 1997.
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* Frederik Magle (b. 1977) * Marcel Dupre' (1886-1971)
You seem to be mixing the names of two composers; Modest Mussorgsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Fernando Torres
There were many great composers who lived in the 1920ès. George Gerswin and Duke Ellington were two very important American composers from the 1920's.
Elgar Williams
Duke Ellington
there was no confirmed first player but john Adams was one of the firstW.C. Handy and "Jelly Roll" Morton were two of the first well-known jazz composers. "Buddy" Bolden was one of the first jazz trumpet players. However, the creators of jazz are still unknown today, mostly because they were undocumented enslaved peoples and were considered inferior by racist white peoples.