List of big band musicians

• Ray Anthony (b. 1922)
• Buster Bailey (1902–1967)^[1]
• Count Basie (1904–1984)^[2]
• Bix Beiderbecke (1903–1931)^[3]
• Les Brown (1912–2001)
• Xavier Cugat (1900–1990)
• Jimmy Dorsey (1904–1957)
• Duke Ellington (1899–1974)^[4]
• Chico Freeman (b. 1949)
• Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993)^[5]
• Lionel Hampton (1908–2002)
• Andy Kirk (1898–1992)^[6]
• Eddie Lang (1902–1933)
• Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961)
• George Paxton (1914–1989)
• Joe Venuti (1903–1978)
• Chick Webb (1905–1939)^[7]
• Teddy Wilson (1912–1986)

References

1. Kernfeld, Barry, ed. The New Gove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1. London: Macmillan Publishers, Ltd., 2002.
2. Count Basie, 1985, p. 51
3. 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).
4. Pulitzer Prize Winners Special Awards and Citations 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners Special Awards and Citations
5. Watrous, P. Dizzy Gillespie, Who Sounded Some of Modern Jazz's Earliest Notes, Dies at 75, NY Times Obituary, January 7, 1993
6. 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
7. "Swing Music History", last accessed Jan 12, 2010