Ella Fitzgerald, among so many other talented musicians. The genre is so ingrained in our society that it even has its own era in American history, with the Jazz Age of the 1920s. While you may expect many of the jazz greats to come from Louisiana, the birthplace of the genre, plenty of amazing musicians hail from right here in Tennessee.
Because Tennessee has a long and storied history of music, from country to jazz and everything in between, here are just a few famous jazz musicians you may not have realized are from the Volunteer State.
Lil Hardin Armstrong