Jesse Davis
Jesse Davis (born September 11, 1965) is an American jazz saxophonist.
Davis began as a student in Ellis Marsalis's New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.
After graduating, Davis embarked on a productive jazz career, recording 8 albums on the Concord Jazz label, alongside collaborations with such artists as Jack McDuff and Illinois Jacquet.
Davis has studied music at Northeastern Illinois University, and in 1989 he received a "Most Outstanding Musician award" from "Down Beat" magazine.
With Cedar Walton
With Gerald Wilson
Jacquet of Mantua
Jacquet of Mantua( Jacques Colebault, dit Jachet de Mantoue)
( 1483 – October 2, 1559) was a French composer of the Renaissance, who spent almost his entire life in Italy.
He was an influential member of the generation between Josquin and Palestrina, and represents well the transitional polyphonic style between those two composers.
Leo Parker
Leo Parker( April 18, 1925- February 11, 1962) was an American jazz musician who played baritone saxophone.
Born in Washington, D.C., Parker studied alto saxophone in high school, and played this instrument on a recording with Coleman Hawkins in 1944.
He switched to baritone saxophone later that year when he joined Billy Eckstine's bebop band, playing there until 1946.
In 1945 he was a member of the so- called" Unholy Four" of saxophonists, with Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons.
He played on 52nd Street in New York with Dizzy Gillespie in 1946 and Illinois Jacquet in 1947- 48, and later recorded with Fats Navarro, J.J. Johnson, Teddy Edwards, Wardell Gray and Charles Thompson.
He and Thompson had a hit with their Apollo Records release," Mad Lad".
In the 1950s, Parker had problems with drug abuse, which interfered with his recording career.
He made two comeback records for Blue Note in 1961, but the following year he died of a heart attack in New York CIty.
He was 36. On June 25, 2019," The New York Times Magazine" listed Leo Parker among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
With Coleman Hawkins With Illinois Jacquet
Alexandra Hildebrandt
Alexandra Hildebrandt( born Alexandra Weissmann on 27 February 1959 in Kiev) is a German artist, author, political activist and human rights activist.
She is currently director of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum and the chair of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13.
August Association.
In 1995, she married the museum's other co-founder and former director Rainer Hildebrandt, and they remained married until his death in 2004.
She is internationally noted for leading the construction of the Freedom Memorial, which was controversially demolished in 2005.
The focus of Alexandra Hildebrandt's work is the preservation and advancement of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, the rehabilitation of the victims of the GDR- Regime, and the clarification of more destinies of refugees who suffered death at the East- West border.
Furthermore, she takes a stand for the worldwide non-violent struggle for human rights, which was a matter very close to her late husbands heart.
In 2004 she endowed the international human rights award, the" Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Medal", which is given annually in recognition of extraordinary, non-violent commitment to human rights.
In 2017 Alexandra had her seventh child when she was 58 and already a grandma.
John J. Nimrod
John J. Nimrod( May 1, 1922 – January 4, 2009) was an Assyrian American minority rights activist and Illinois state senator.
Rainer Hildebrandt
Rainer Hildebrandt( born December 14, 1914 in Stuttgart, died January 9, 2004 in Berlin) was a German anti-communist resistance fighter, historian and founder of the legendary Checkpoint Charlie Museum.
He was involved in the resistance to the communist regime of the Soviet occupation zone since the 1940s, as a member of the Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit.
The resistance group received financial aid from the Central Intelligence Agency.
In 1995, he married Alexandra Hildebrandt.
She remains a director of the museum following his death.
Illinois Jacquet
Jean- Baptiste" Illinois" Jacquet( October 30, 1922 – July 22, 2004) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, best remembered for his solo on" Flying Home", critically recognized as the first R&B saxophone solo.
Although he was a pioneer of the honking tenor saxophone that became a regular feature of jazz playing and a hallmark of early rock and roll, Jacquet was a skilled and melodic improviser, both on up- tempo tunes and ballads.
He doubled on the bassoon, one of only a few jazz musicians to use the instrument.
Daniel G. Garnsey
Daniel Greene Garnsey( June 17, 1779 – May 11, 1851) was an American politician from New York, Michigan and Illinois.
Wolfgang Kaiser (KgU)
Wolfgang Kaiser( born Leipzig 16 February 1924: executed Dresden 6 September 1952) was a member of Rainer Hildebrandt's" Struggle against Inhumanty" group( KgU/" Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit") which campaigned against the one party dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic.
In the 1952 Hildebrandt conspiracy show trial, he was identified on 8 August as the" chief chemist" of the KgU and, on 9 August, condemned to death in the country's Supreme Court.
Charles W. Woodford
Charles W. Woodford( December 23, 1931 – February 21, 2009) was an American businessman and Illinois Treasurer from 1970 to 1971.

Question: Are Rainer Hildebrandt and Illinois Jacquet of the same nationality?
Answer: no