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Chick Webb
Chick Webb
American musician
1
Claude Jones
Claude Jones
trombonist
2
Teddy McRae
Teddy McRae
American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger
3
Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa
drummer, composer, bandleader
4
Jack Webb
Jack Webb
American actor, producer, director, author
5
Taft Jordan
Taft Jordan
Jazz trumpeter
6
Dick Vance
Dick Vance
American musician
7
Elmer James
Elmer James
American musician
8
Bobby Stark
Bobby Stark
American musician
9
Albert Nicholas
Albert Nicholas
American musician
10
Reunald Jones
Reunald Jones
American musician
11
Jimmie Lunceford
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
12
Jerry Blake
Jerry Blake
American musician
13
Charlie Green
Charlie Green
American jazz trombonist
14
Sandy Williams
Sandy Williams
American musician
15
Charlie Christian
Charlie Christian
American swing and jazz guitarist
16
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer
17
Ben Pollack
Ben Pollack
American musician
18
Rudy Vallée
Rudy Vallée
American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer (1901-1986)
19
Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor
American jazz bassist
20
Bunny Berigan
Bunny Berigan
American musician
21
John Kirby
John Kirby
jazz bassist
22
Cootie Williams
Cootie Williams
American trumpeter
23
Art Blakey
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
24
Lester Young
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
25
Ram Ramirez
Ram Ramirez
Puerto Rican born jazz pianist and composer
26
Edgar Sampson
Edgar Sampson
American jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist, and violinist
27
Elmer Snowden
Elmer Snowden
American musician
28
Snub Mosley
Snub Mosley
American musician
29
Ralph Rainger
Ralph Rainger
American songwriter and composer
30
Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)
31
Erskine Hawkins
Erskine Hawkins
American trumpeter and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama
32
Eddie Barefield
Eddie Barefield
American musician
33
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
34
Wayman Carver
Wayman Carver
American musician
35
Eddie Heywood
Eddie Heywood
American jazz pianist, songwriter
36
Mario Bauzá Cárdenas
Mario Bauzá Cárdenas
American musician
37
Ted Heath
Ted Heath
British musician
38
Wingy Manone
Wingy Manone
American musician
39
Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
American big band leader and musician
40
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
American jazz singer
41
Ivie Anderson
Ivie Anderson
American jazz singer
42
Frankie Trumbauer
Frankie Trumbauer
American musician
43
Red Nichols
Red Nichols
American jazz musician
44
Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw
American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader
45
Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt
Belgian-born Romani French jazz guitarist and composer
46
Roy Webb
Roy Webb
American-born composer
47
Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
48
Al Sears
Al Sears
American jazz tenor saxophonist
49
Don Byas
Don Byas
American musician
50
Buster Bailey
Buster Bailey
American musician
51
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker
American jazz saxophonist and composer
52
Joe Venuti
Joe Venuti
jazz violinist
53
Luis Russell
Luis Russell
American jazz pianist and bandleader
54
Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli
French jazz violinist
55
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
56
Cliff Edwards
Cliff Edwards
American recording artist; musician, singer, actor and voice actor (1895-1971)
57
Count Basie
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
58
Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
59
Russell Procope
Russell Procope
American musician
60
Bob Crosby
Bob Crosby
American dixieland bandleader and vocalist (1913-1993)
Nat Story
American musician

Nat Story

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American musician
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Nathaniel Edward Story (August 8, 1904 in Oak Station, Kentucky – November 21, 1968 in Evansville, Indiana) was an American jazz trombonist.

Story played on riverboats on the Mississippi with Fate Marable and Floyd Campbell in the 1920s, and played with the Jones & Collins Astoria Hot Eight in 1928. He moved to New York City in the 1930s, working with Luis Russell (1934), Sam Wooding (1934), and Chick Webb (1936–39). After Webb's death he remained in the orchestra under the direction of Ella Fitzgerald, but left in 1940. Early in the 1940s he played with Andy Kirk and Lucky Millinder, but went into semi-retirement after this, though he performed occasionally into the 1960s.