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.
there are many
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Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
Mingus Big Band
Woody Herman Big Band (any year from 1945-1960's)
Bob Mintzer Big Band
Chris Walden Big Band
We may never know, since jazz (at one time spelled "jass") evolved slowly over time, a blend of various influences (blues, Afro-Cuban dance music, dixieland, ragtime, etc). In the late 1800s, jazz began to be heard in several different cities, one of which was New Orleans, where dixieland jazz was born; and another was Sedalia, Missouri, where Scott Joplin developed what came to be called "ragtime." Also important was Jelly Roll Morton (real name Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe)-- some sources say that Morton was one of the founding fathers of jazz. The first jazz phonograph recording was made in 1917, by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, but the music itself had been around for several decades before anyone made a record in that style.
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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
Chris Wood - jazz musician - was born in 1969.
Eddie Jones - jazz musician - was born in 1929.
Eddie Jones - jazz musician - died in 1997.
Werner Neumann - jazz musician - was born in 1964.
Scott Robinson - jazz musician - was born in 1959.
Howard Johnson - jazz musician - was born in 1941.
Frank Wright - jazz musician - was born in 1935.
Eddie Allen - jazz musician - was born in 1957.
John Jenkins - jazz musician - was born in 1931.