List of big band musicians
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- 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
- ^ Kernfeld, Barry, ed. The New Gove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1. London: Macmillan Publishers, Ltd., 2002.
- ^ Count Basie, 1985, p. 51
- ^ 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