Jazz royalty

Jazz royalty is a term that reflects the many great jazz musicians who have some sort of royal title in their names or nicknames.

Later Jazz Monarchs & Aristocrats

• Sharkey Bonano billed his band as "Sharkey & His Kings of Dixieland". What started out as the Assunto Family band acknowledged Sharkey's supremacy but claimed a lesser title for themselves, becoming the Dukes of Dixieland.
• Charles Mingus dubbed himself "Baron Mingus" for a brief period early in his career.
• Many of Al Hirt's records credited him as Al "He's The King" Hirt.