First Impotant Jazz Singer and the Most Influential

Louis Armstrong


Pre Bop Instrumentalists Who Also sang

Don RedmanFats Waller
Jack TeagardenHot Lips Page
Red AllenLouis Prima
Wingy ManoneJelly Roll Morton
Nat GonellaJay McShann
Woody HermanDanny Barker
Nat King ColeLouis Jordan
Clancy Hayes


Middle-Of-The-Road Pop Singers who have influenced Jazz

Bing Crosby - Frank Sinatra


Kansas City Swing / Blues Tradition

Jimmy RushingBig Joe Turner
Jimmy WihterspoonBig Miller
Joe WilliamsErnie Andrews
Bill Henderson


Two Other Influential Swing Vocalists

Cab Calloway - Billy Eckstine


Jive Singers

Slim Gaillard - Leo Watson - Harry "The Hipster" Gibson


Bop and Vocalese

Dizzy GillespieJoe Carroll
Babs GonzalesJackie Paris
Eddie JeffersonKing Pleasure
Buddy StewartDave Lambert
Jon Hendricks


R & B

Ray Charles - Charles Brown - Al Jarreau


More Recent Instrumentalists Who Also Sing

Chet BakerClark Terry
Richard BooneGeorge Adams
Grady TateGeorge Benson


1960s to Present

Mel TormeJohnny Hartman
Earl ColemanBob Dorough
Oscar Brown jr.Mose Allison
Leon ThomasMark Murphy
Dave FrishbergBobby McFerrin
Kevin MahoganyKurt Elling