That may remain an unknown, Buddy Bolden was an early inovator with the coronet, and may deserve the title. Jazz existed and was routinely played and anjoyed in New Orleans before "Jelly Roll" Morton and Joe "King" Oliver who are also given credit for this American musical art form.
Chuck Berry was the first great rock & roll musician, not a jazz musician.
Tito Puente was a latin musician who was also considered to have many jazz influences as well as influenced jazz.
Buddy Bolden was the first musician to play what we now identify as jazz music.
Nobody can claim for sure who the first white Jazz musician was but Jelly Roll Morton 'claimed' singularly to have invented Jazz, but this is very unlikely.Besides he played the piano. Bix Beiderbecke played jazz cornet and was an early jazz/swing trumpet player. The other white players of the time have disappeared in the mists of time.
Miles Davis.
Chuck Berry was the first great rock & roll musician, not a jazz musician.
Its when Jazz first became Big.
Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker
No. Jazz music existed long before Chuck Berry was even born.
Werner Neumann - jazz musician - was born in 1964.
Eddie Jones - jazz musician - was born in 1929.
Eddie Jones - jazz musician - died in 1997.
Chris Wood - jazz musician - was born in 1969.
John Jenkins - jazz musician - was born in 1931.
John Jenkins - jazz musician - died in 1993.
Bobby Durham - jazz musician - was born in 1937.
Bobby Durham - jazz musician - died in 2008.