Attila Zoller
Attila Zoller (1927-1998) was born in Visegrád in the North of Hungary. His father was a violinist and music teacher...
Europe
Jazz in Europe
Jutta Hipp
Pianist Jutta Hipp (1925-2003) had a sadly truncated career - her first recordings were in 1952, her last in 1956...
Shake Keane
Born in St Vincent, Ellsworth Keane (1927-1997) was taught music from an early age by his father. He played trumpet...
George Gruntz
Born in Basel, Switzerland, George Gruntz (1932-2013) was gifted enough at the piano to study at Zurich's conservatoire from the...
Duško Gojković
Duško Gojković (born 1931) is a Serbian trumpeter, who established himself as a key figure in European jazz from the...
Mongezi Feza
Mongezi Feza (1945-1975) was only 30 years old when he died, but in his short life he had a big...
Coleridge Goode
Bassist Coleridge Goode (1914-2015) had a rich, varied and very long career after moving to the UK in 1934, where...
George Chisholm
George Chisholm (1915-1997) was one of the first UK jazz musicians to attain a level of musicianship and improvisational skills...
Harry Beckett
Harry Beckett (1923-2010) had one of the most distinctive trumpet sounds in British jazz. Born in Barbados, he took up...
