He received the greatest praise from such jazz giants as Wes Montgomery and John Coltrane, who at one point extended the invitation to join his group.

One by one the jazz giants left for greener pastures.

With the lot behind Louis Armstrong's house, he says he was approached by three friends of the jazz giant as soon as the auctioneer's gavel fell.

While demonstrating ample technical prowess, his improvisations amounted to little more than naive, strung-together tributes to this or that jazz giant.

Mr. Venter stole upstairs to the balcony, took a seat and treated himself to an unexpected afternoon with a jazz giant.

He is Jack De Johnette, a drummer who has worked with Miles Davis, John Coltrane and other jazz giants.

Charlie Parker, the jazz giant and Basquiat's signal hero, is repeatedly evoked.

He provided an enormous contrast to so many other jazz giants of the 1950's, who dissipated their talents and lives with drugs and alcohol.

The artist exhibited 55 photographs of hotel rooms ostensibly reserved for 55 jazz giants.

Like many other jazz giants of her generation, she had her first break when she won an amateur talent contest at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.