The Fantastic nicknames of Jazz (Their Real Names)

Louis Armstrong, Michael Marmarosa, Farrell Sanders, Joe Jones

Earl Freeman, Jean Baptiste Reinhart, Charles Mitchell Coker, Cab Calloway

Ken Johnson, Oran Page, Gerry Mulligan, Leon Berry

James Hubert Blake, Warren Dodds, Greig Stewart Jackson, Alfred Hall, Art Blakey

 

Buddy Bolden, Peggy Lee, Truman Eliot Jenney & Weldon Teagarden,

Earl Rudolph Powell & Bernard Rich, Clifford Douglas & Henry Mussulli, Oett Mallard

Edward Ellington, William Basie, Charles Mingus, Jonathan David Samuel Jones

Kenneth Norville, James McHargue, Lou Marini

 

Avery Howard, Willie Mae Thornton, Earl Hines

Ben Webster, Maynard Ferguson, Al Wichard, Oscar Peterson

Ernie Cagnolatti, Leroy Cooper, Gene Ammons, Frederic Johnson, Joe Stephens

Eugene Wright, Ken Colyer, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald 

 

Hal Singer, David Newman, Milt Hinton, John Handy

George Mraz, Joseph Edward Filipelli, James Joseph Bennett, Johnny Smith

Frank Trumbauer, Leroy Stewart, Bulee Gaillard, Leonard Davis

William Harris, Elmer Alexander, Coleman Hawkins, Jay McShann, Donald Lambert

 

John Pastorius, Nicholas Krolak, Ollie Johnson, Martin Abraham, John Lawson,

Edward Bertholf Robinson, Ernest Miller, Edward Cornelius, Gordon Lee Beneke, Paul Gonsalves, Bernie Ross Crawford

Clifford Brown, Diane Schuur, Charlie Parker, Dave Burns

William Thomas Betts, Kenny Clarke, Russell Moore, James Miley, John Coltrane

 

Nina Simone, Henry Byrd,

Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Louis Tio, Eddie Costa

Sarah Vaughan, Chauncey Westbrook, Art Tatum, Jeff Watts

Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen

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