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Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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Freddie Green
American jazz guitarist
2
Jimmy Rushing
American blues shouter and swing jazz singer
3
Budd Johnson
American musician
4
Walter Page
American jazz musician
5
Eddie Durham
American musician
6
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
7
Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
8
Butch Miles
American jazz drummer
9
Al Grey
American jazz musician
10
Gus Johnson
American musician
11
Charlie Fowlkes
American musician
12
Don Byas
American musician
13
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
14
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
15
Charles Thompson
American pianist
16
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
17
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
18
Hot Lips Page
American jazz musician
19
Russell Procope
American musician
20
Jack Washington
American jazz saxophonist
21
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
22
Billy Eckstine
American musician
23
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
24
Sonny Payne
American jazz drummer
25
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
26
John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
27
Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
28
Snooky Young
American musician
29
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
30
Joe Newman
American musician
31
Cleveland Eaton
American musician
32
Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
33
Dan Minor
jazz trombonist
34
John Heard
American musician and sculptor
35
Milt Jackson
American musician
36
Bill Hughes
jazz musician
37
Sarah Vaughan
American jazz singer
38
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
39
Henry Coker
American musician
40
Booty Wood
American jazz musician
41
Wardell Gray
American musician
42
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
43
Joe Williams
American jazz singer
44
Helen Humes
American jazz and blues singer
45
Tadd Dameron
American pianist
46
Cat Anderson
American jazz trumpeter
47
Sam Woodyard
American jazz drummer
48
Buster Smith
Jazz alto saxophonist
49
Nat Pierce
American musician
50
Roomful of Blues
Musical band
51
Bill Ramsay
American jazz saxophonist & bandleader
52
Dicky Wells
American jazz trombonist
53
Benny Powell
American jazz trombonist
54
Jimmy Hamilton
American jazz musician
55
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
56
Jon Hendricks
American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian
57
Barney Bigard
American jazz clarinetist, jazz musician
58
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
59
Neal Hefti
American jazz trumpeter, composer, songwriter, and arranger (1928-2008)
60
Charlie Barnet
American saxophonist, composer, bandleader
61
Aaron Bell
American musician
62
Chris Woods
American jazz saxophonist
63
Jimmy Woode
American bassist
64
Big Miller
American blues singer (1922-1992)
65
Billy Byers
American jazz trombonist and arranger (1927-1996)
66
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
