"I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since."

You may also like:

• 

  Charlie Parker
  Saxophonist

• 

  Chet Baker
  Trumpeter

• 

  Cicely Tyson
  Actress

• 

  Dizzy Gillespie
  Bandleader

• 

  Duke Ellington
  Composer

• 

  Herbie Hancock
  Jazz Pianist

• 

  John Coltrane
  Saxophonist

• 

  Louis Armstrong
  Trumpeter

• 

  Thelonious Monk
  Pianist