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Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
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Trigger Alpert
Trigger Alpert
musician
2
Tom Archia
Tom Archia
American musician
3
J. C. Heard
J. C. Heard
American musician
4
Vic Dickenson
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
5
Norris Turney
Norris Turney
American musician
6
Russell Procope
Russell Procope
American musician
7
Shorty Baker
Shorty Baker
American musician
8
Sahib Shihab
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
9
Elmer Snowden
Elmer Snowden
American musician
10
Cyril Haynes
Cyril Haynes
American jazz pianist
11
Johnny Hodges
Johnny Hodges
American alto saxophonist
12
Talib Dawud
Talib Dawud
American musician
13
Tiny Grimes
Tiny Grimes
American jazz and R&B guitarist
14
Charlie Shavers
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
15
Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa
drummer, composer, bandleader
16
Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
17
Teddy Hill
Teddy Hill
American musician
18
Roy Milton
Roy Milton
American R&B and jump blues singer, drummer and bandleader
19
Alvin Stoller
Alvin Stoller
American musician
20
Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra
Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra
American jazz and dance band from the 1920s and 1930s
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Lester Young
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
22
Roy Webb
Roy Webb
American-born composer
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Jimmy Coe
Jimmy Coe
American musician
24
Panama Francis
Panama Francis
American musician
25
John Kirby
John Kirby
jazz bassist
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Ted Sturgis
Ted Sturgis
American musician
27
Sandy Williams
Sandy Williams
American musician
28
Metronome All-Stars
Metronome All-Stars
band that plays jazz
29
Pete Brown
Pete Brown
American musician
30
Jo Jones
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
31
Buster Harding
Buster Harding
Canadian-born American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
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Scoops Carry
Scoops Carry
American jazz saxophonist
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Booty Wood
Booty Wood
American jazz musician
34
Joe Guy
Joe Guy
American musician
35
Carl Pruitt
Carl Pruitt
American jazz and blues double bassist
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Harry Edison
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
37
Leo Reisman
Leo Reisman
American musician
38
Bob Hammer
Bob Hammer
American pianist
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Kansas Fields
Kansas Fields
American musician
40
Frank Strazzeri
Frank Strazzeri
American musician
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Eddie Locke
Eddie Locke
American musician
42
Jimmy McLin
Jimmy McLin
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Sil Austin
Sil Austin
American jazz saxophonist
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Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay
Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay
Swedish trumpeter
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Ed Shaughnessy
Ed Shaughnessy
American jazz drummer
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Buddy Tate
Buddy Tate
American musician
47
Jack Webb
Jack Webb
American actor, producer, director, author
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Hal Singer
Hal Singer
American musician
49
Richie Kamuca
Richie Kamuca
American musician
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Stanley Black
Stanley Black
British composer
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Skitch Henderson
Skitch Henderson
American pianist, conductor, and composer (1918-2005)
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Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
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Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
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Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
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Doc Severinsen
Doc Severinsen
American jazz trumpeter (born 1927)
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Ike Quebec
Ike Quebec
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Ted Heath
Ted Heath
British musician
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Henderson Chambers
Henderson Chambers
American musician
Doc West
American jazz drummer

Doc West

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American jazz drummer
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Music

Harold "Doc" West (August 12, 1915, Wolford, North Dakota, United States – May 4, 1951, Cleveland, Ohio, United States) was an American jazz drummer.

West learned to play piano and cello as a child before switching to drums. In the 1930s he played in Chicago with Tiny Parham, Erskine Tate, and Roy Eldridge (1937–38). Late in the 1930s he filled in for Chick Webb when Webb was unable to lead his own orchestra. Early in the 1940s he played with Hot Lips Page, and played on the early bebop scene at Minton's Playhouse in New York City with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Tiny Grimes, and Don Byas. He played with Oscar Pettiford in 1944 and stood in for Jo Jones occasionally in Count Basie's orchestra.

West appears on recordings from Slam Stewart, Leo Watson, Wardell Gray, Billie Holiday, Erroll Garner, Big Joe Turner, and Jay McShann. He died in 1951 while on tour with Roy Eldridge.

He was married to Florence West (deceased); they had one daughter Alita West-Kelly born December 6, 1949 (deceased 2011).