There are so many great jazz musicians who laid the strong foundation we have in the jazz music genre in the world today. Guys like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and so much more. But amongst all of them, if I'm choosing my best jazz musician of all time, it's going to be Louis Armstrong. With his rhythmically sophisticated operatic music style, it sets him apart and unique as the best in jazz music.
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Who's your best jazz musician of all time?
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Miles Davis would be my choice as the best jazz musician of all time because of the kind of contribution he made in the jazz genre of the music industry. He was the most influential jazz musicians of all time. He was a relentless innovator with how he kept bringing in new styles of development in jazz.
I think everybody will always go with Miles Davis because of how authentic and professional that he tried to make his songs. He did well and I give him the thumbs up and an applause.
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Just as it has been mentioned, John Coltrane and Miles Davies for me. No one else comes close.
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It's a tough call, but I’d go with Miles Davis. His innovations in bebop, cool jazz, modal jazz, and fusion—as heard on albums like Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew—reshaped the genre repeatedly. He had a knack for assembling killer bands with guys like Coltrane and Hancock, and his trumpet had a haunting, lyrical edge. That said, you could also argue for Duke Ellington’s compositional genius or Coltrane’s spiritual intensity. Who's your pick?
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That is the beauty of Jazz songs. Everyone you listen to appears to have their own style of singing, which makes it quite unique.
We don't need to have the same when it comes to music. I will always love to always listen to different diverse in meaning of their thoughts.
Even though Satchmo and Coltrane were the greatest innovators of their respective generations, and despite the fact that I can barely sit still to Benny Goodman, my actual favorite artist of all time in any genre is Lady Day, AKA Billie Holiday. A lot of people prefer Ella because she had a more conventionally pretty voice, but Billie Holiday sang from her soul. You can feel the heartbreak and hard living in her voice, but also hope. No matter what she's singing about, you can tell, she feels it. And as depressing as some of her lyrics are (not all of them, of course), when I listen to her, my day brightens. Always. (Or almost always. "Strange Fruit" is not meant to cheer anybody up.)