Bandleader

Nolan Gasser

b. 1964

Earl Burtnett

1896 – 1936

Billy Cotton

1899 – 1969

Rich Matteson

1929 – 1993

Bobby Martin

1903 – 2001

Frank Westphal

1889 – 1948

Harold Barlow

1915 – 1993

Andy Dickens

b. 1953

Spud Murphy

1908 – 2005

Thorstein Skarning

1888 – 1939

Ian Hamer

1932 – 2006

Walter Barnes

1905 – 1940

Zack Whyte

1898 – 1967

Leo Baxter

1893 – 1976

Hal McIntyre

1914 – 1959

Gap Mangione

b. 1938

Alberto Naranjo

1941 – 2020

Mike Cotton

b. 1939

Fred Hamm

Chris Daniels

b. 1952

Paul Mirkovich

b. 1963

Claude Hopkins

1903 – 1984

Joe Haymes

1907 – 1964

Leon Breeden

1921 – 2010

LeRoy Holmes

1913 – 1986

Nat Temple

1913 – 2008

Béla Babai

1914 – 1997

Tiny Parham

1900 – 1943

Stan Keller

1907 – 1990

Putney Dandridge

1902 – 1946

Rudy Vallée

1901 – 1986

Sun Ra

1914 – 1993

Ray Teal

1902 – 1976

Hutch Davie

1930 – 2020

Jack Cooper

b. 1963

John Scott

b. 1930

Teddy Riley

1924 – 1992

Ken Colyer

1928 – 1988

Harry Richman

1895 – 1972

Willard Robison

1894 – 1968

Clyde Lucas

1901 – 1945

Harry Parry

1912 – 1956

Ernie Wilkins

1920 – 1999

Milton Brown

1903 – 1936

Ted Weems

1901 – 1963

Tony Pabón

1939 – 2014

Kid Thomas Valentine

1896 – 1987

Horace Henderson

1904 – 1988

Juan Formell

1942 – 2014

Billy Ternent

1899 – 1977

Harry Bidgood

1898 – 1957

Ed Kirkeby

1891 – 1978

Jimmy Henderson

1921 – 1998

Lou Gold

1885 – 1950

Erskine Tate

1895 – 1978

Buddy Morrow

1919 – 2010

Paul Mares

1900 – 1949

Al Dvorin

1922 – 2004

Marlon Jordan

b. 1970

James A. Hall

b. 1947

Charlie Kunz

1896 – 1958

Gilberto Santa Rosa

b. 1962

Andy Lee Lang

b. 1965

Alma Julia Hightower

1888 – 1970

Gus Clark

1913 – 1979

Herb Pomeroy

1930 – 2007

Noble Sissle

1889 – 1975

Marty Paich

1925 – 1995

George Hamilton

1901 – 1957

King Curtis

1934 – 1971

Frank Fairfax

1899 – 1972

Pete Rodriguez

1932 – 2024

Jimmy O'Bryant

1896 – 1928

Reuben Reeves

1905 – 1975

Lawrence Duhé

1887 – 1960

Zaccai Curtis

b. 1981

Jack R. Anderson

Eddie Higgins

1932 – 2009

Maurice Winnick

1902 – 1962

Teddy Powell

1905 – 1993

Joe Leahy

1916 – 1974

Mark Berman

Buddy Lucas

1914 – 1983

John Robichaux

1866 – 1939

William Manuel Johnson

1872 – 1972

Warren Covington

1921 – 1999

Leighton Noble

1912 – 1994

Miff Mole

1898 – 1961

David W. Tucker

1929 – 2003

Henry Adler

1915 – 2008

Joseph Samuels

Leon Alexander Abbey

1900 – 1975

Charlie Elgar

1879 – 1973

Ellis Stratakos

1903 – 1961

Bill Moring

b. 1958

George Evans

1915 – 1993

Herman "Roscoe" Ernest III

1951 – 2011

Derek Trucks

b. 1979

Mel Lewis

1929 – 1990

Dick Stabile

1909 – 1980