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Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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Harry Edison
American trumpeter
2
Charlie Fowlkes
American musician
3
Henderson Chambers
American musician
4
Sonny Payne
American jazz drummer
5
Marshal Royal
American musician
6
Bobby Plater
American musician
7
Bill Hughes
jazz musician
8
Henry Coker
American musician
9
Al Aarons
American jazz trumpeter
10
Freddie Green
American jazz guitarist
11
Sonny Cohn
American musician
12
Eric Dixon
American jazz musician
13
Neal Hefti
American jazz trumpeter, composer, songwriter, and arranger (1928-2008)
14
Benny Powell
American jazz trombonist
15
Joe Newman
American musician
16
Reunald Jones
American musician
17
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
18
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
19
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
20
Billy Byers
American jazz trombonist and arranger (1927-1996)
21
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
22
Buddy Rich
American jazz drummer and bandleader
23
Norman Keenan
American musician
24
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
25
Benny Bailey
American musician
26
Cat Anderson
American jazz trumpeter
27
Gene Cherico
American musician
28
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
29
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
30
Wayne Bergeron
American musician
31
Joe Williams
American jazz singer
32
Bud Brisbois
American trumpeter (1937-1978)
33
Speedy Jones
American drummer
34
Plas Johnson
American musician
35
Russell Procope
American musician
36
Al Grey
American jazz musician
37
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
38
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
39
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
40
Snooky Young
American musician
41
Buster Cooper
American trombonist
42
Hot Lips Page
American jazz musician
43
Milt Jackson
American musician
44
Alvin Stoller
American musician
45
Pete Candoli
American musician (1923-2008)
46
Red Allen
American jazz musician, band leader
47
Emil Richards
American musician
48
Conte Candoli
American musician
49
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
50
Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
51
Chuck Berghofer
American musician
52
Ernie Wilkins
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and music arranger
53
Shorty Sherock
American musician
54
George Duvivier
American musician
55
Joe Wilder
American trumpeter
56
Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer
57
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
58
Walter Davis
American pianist
59
Jimmy Hamilton
American jazz musician
60
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
61
Blanche Thomas
American musician
62
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
63
Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
64
Billy Eckstine
American musician
65
Sam Woodyard
American jazz drummer
66
Claus Ogerman
German composer
67
Willie Cook
American musician
68
Juan Tizol
Puerto Rican trombonist and composer
69
Nick LaRocca
American jazz musician
70
Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
71
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
American blues musician
72
Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
73
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
74
Frank Rosolino
American jazz trombonist
75
Bobby Hackett
American jazz musician
76
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
77
Maynard Ferguson
Canadian jazz musician and bandleader
78
Ray Nance
American musician
79
Budd Johnson
American musician
