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The following is a list of big band musicians.
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Ray Anthony (b. 1922)
Buster Bailey (1902–1967)[1]
Count Basie (1904–1984)[2]
John Beasley (b. 1960)[3]
Bix Beiderbecke (1903–1931)[4]
Les Brown (1912–2001)
Xavier Cugat (1900–1990)
Jimmy Dorsey (1904–1957)
Duke Ellington (1899–1974)[5]
Chico Freeman (b. 1949)
Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993)[6]
Lionel Hampton (1908–2002)
Andy Kirk (1898–1992)[7]
Eddie Lang (1902–1933)
Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961)
George Paxton (1914–1989)
Joe Venuti (1903–1978)
Chick Webb (1905–1939)[8]
Teddy Wilson (1912–1986)
^Kernfeld, Barry, ed. The New Gove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1. London: Macmillan Publishers, Ltd., 2002.
^Count Basie, 1985, p. 51
^Silsbee, Kirk (2016-08-31). "John Beasley's MONK'estra Reinvents Thelonious Monk for the 21st Century". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
^Williams acknowledges that "Young himself gave most of the credit to [Frankie] Trumbauer … but I doubt if a man who carried Singin' the Blues around in his tenor case was unaffected by Bix's part in it" (p. 69).
^Pulitzer Prize Winners Special Awards and Citations 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners Special Awards and Citations
^Watrous, P. Dizzy Gillespie, Who Sounded Some of Modern Jazz's Earliest Notes, Dies at 75, NY Times Obituary, January 7, 1993
^Evans, Joe and Brooks, Christopher Follow your heart: moving with the giants of jazz, swing, and rhythm and blues. University of Illinois Press, 2008 ISBN 0-252-03303-5 ISBN 978-0-252-03303-2 Joe Evans autobiography at Google Books
^"Swing Music History" Archived 2010-02-28 at the Wayback Machine, last accessed Jan 12, 2010
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