The following is a list of big band musicians.
Ray Anthony (b. 1922) Buster Bailey (1902–1967)Kernfeld, Barry, ed. The New Gove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1. London: Macmillan Publishers, Ltd., 2002. Count Basie (1904–1984)Count Basie, 1985, p. 51 John Beasley (b. 1960) Bix Beiderbecke (1903–1931)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). Les Brown (1912–2001) Xavier Cugat (1900–1990) Jimmy Dorsey (1904–1957) Duke Ellington (1899–1974)Pulitzer Prize Winners Special Awards and Citations 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners Special Awards and Citations Chico Freeman (b. 1949) Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993)Watrous, P. Dizzy Gillespie, Who Sounded Some of Modern Jazz's Earliest Notes, Dies at 75, NY Times Obituary, January 7, 1993 Lionel Hampton (1908–2002) Andy Kirk (1898–1992)Evans, Joe and Brooks, Christopher Follow your heart: moving with the giants of jazz, swing, and rhythm and blues. University of Illinois Press, 2008 Joe Evans autobiography at Google Books Eddie Lang (1902–1933) Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961) Buddy Rich (b. 1917) Gene Krupa (b. 1909) Johnny Griffin (b. 1928) George Paxton (1914–1989) Joe Venuti (1903–1978) Chick Webb (1905–1939)"Swing Music History" , last accessed Jan 12, 2010 Teddy Wilson (1912–1986)
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