Jazz Names

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Ella
Billie
Alberta
Bessie
Betty
Cleo

Dexter
Miles
Thelonious
Sonny
Louis
Duke
Nat

Anymore for anymore?

Humphrey
Jools

Sarah
Nancy
Dinah
Nina
Shirley
Etta

Chet
George
Oscar
Bing
Bob
Sammy
Dizzy
Woody
Don

Dee or DeeDee
Madeleine

Charlie
Don

I know someone who called their baby Mingus.

Please don't do that.

Booker

Django

Mahalia

Oh I love Django (name and Reinhardt)

Herbie
Fats

Django is cool, I've met a Jago, not dissimilar but better!

I do have a strange affinity for Cleo (the name).
Thelonius is magnificent. Probably shortened to Theo?

Gil

John
Sidney
Sun Ra
Ornette
Paul
Evan

Alice
Stan

Ooh I love jazz names, I have 2 jazz-named children!

How about:

Otis
Miles
Earl
Buddy
Gil
Artie
Ray
Ira

Lou
Esperanza

Charnette
Satchmo (Louis Armstrong's nn)
Pheeroan
Lester
Tubby
Baby
Roswell
Dewey
Lennie
Cecil

Bessie

Bix

Wynton
Coltrane

Our DS is called Dexter Miles and I honestly didn't make the jazz connection!

Jellyroll (Morton) ?

Oh go on..