Jazz Style

Jazz musicians have always colored outside the lines a bit both musically and in respect to their personal style. While pushing the edge of the envelope, some have become icons.



Dizzy Gillespie.
His beret and overtly hipster image belied his serious attitude about his craft. Hipster wannabes all over the world began wearing berets.







With all due respect to Elvis, Bing Crosby was the first white performer to take African American music to the white audience. Bing is now remembered as a movie star and the singer of White Christmas, but he was heavily influenced by jazz and the biggest star on earth for many years. He wore traditional clothing, but the way he wore it was always loose and cool.





Louis Armstrong is one of the most influential musicians of all time. He had hip personal style traits like silk socks rolled down tightly and pocket handkerchiefs that he held in his hand while playing his horn. So beloved, his passing was the front page headline in newspapers all over the world.









The birth of the cool.
Miles Davis constantly reinvented himself, but in the early days he was a blueprint for the style of actors and musicians.


These early heroes laid the groundwork for the marriage between music and style that is still with us today.