Some music to listen to...

Charles Mingus
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Stan Getz
Bob Brookmeyer
Woody Herman
Paul Desmond
Dave Brubeck
Gerry Mulligan
Chet Baker
Jackie McLean
Gigi Gryce
Sonny Rollins
Thelonious Monk
Miles and Coltrane
Cannonball Adderley
Bill Evans
Gil Evan
Clifford Brown
Max Roach
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Horace Silver
Ray Charles
Muddy Waters
Little Walter
Howlin' Wolf
Big Mama Thornton
Billy Ward
All these from a paragraph in Mingus Mingus by Janet Coleman and Al Young