The term "cat" comes from the 1930's for a swing musician or anyone who liked swing. This term carried over into the 1950's beatnik slang. Like a " cool cat, man".
I don't think any jazz musicians played clarinet. Jazz has brass instruments.
Approximately 3.7 million
Kenny G + a bunch of smooth jazz players and Miles Davis
"Making Whoopee" is a "jazz era" popular song but isn't a tune played usually by jazz musicians it does not belong to any jazz style.
Jazz bands featured only black musicians.
Yes, doubtless many jazz musicians are atheists.
Valerie Wilmer has written: 'As serious as your life' -- subject- s -: African American musicians, History and criticism, Jazz, Jazz musicians, United States 'Jazz people' -- subject- s -: Biography, History and criticism, Jazz, Jazz musicians
Dizzy Gillespie has written: 'Dizzy atmosphere' -- subject(s): Interviews, Jazz musicians 'To be, or not ... to BOP' -- subject(s): Biography, Jazz musicians 'Dizzy: To be or not to bop' 'Body and Soul' 'Dizzy' -- subject(s): Biography, Jazz musicians 'Dizzy Gillespie / A Jazz Master' 'To be, or not-- to bop' -- subject(s): Biography, Jazz musicians 'The Dizzy Gillespie Collection'
Bix Beiderbecke was a jazz cornetist from Iowa, and one of the leading jazz musicians of the 1920s.
John Chilton has written: 'Who's who of British jazz' -- subject(s): Dictionaries, Biography, Jazz musicians 'The song of the hawk' -- subject(s): Biography, Jazz musicians
Thomas J. Hennessey has written: 'From jazz to swing' -- subject(s): African American jazz musicians, African American musicians, History and criticism, Jazz
Alexander Ebert has written: 'Jazz und seine Musiker im Roman' -- subject(s): American fiction, History and criticism, African American jazz musicians, Jazz in literature, Jazz musicians in literature
I don't think any jazz musicians played clarinet. Jazz has brass instruments.
George Benson is.
Mezz Mezzrow has written: 'Really the blues' -- subject(s): Biography, Blues, Correspondence, reminiscences, Jazz, Jazz musicians, Musicians
Stanley Dance has written: 'The world of Earl Hines' -- subject(s): Biography, Jazz musicians 'The world of Duke Ellington' -- subject(s): Biography, History and criticism, Jazz, Jazz musicians
Count Basie.