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The following is a list of big band musicians.

• Ray Anthony (b. 1922)
• Buster Bailey (1902–1967)
• Count Basie (1904–1984)
• John Beasley (b. 1960)
• Bix Beiderbecke (1903–1931)
• Les Brown (1912–2001)
• Xavier Cugat (1900–1990)
• Jimmy Dorsey (1904–1957)
• Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
• Chico Freeman (b. 1949)
• Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993)
• Lionel Hampton (1908–2002)
• Andy Kirk (1898–1992)
• Eddie Lang (1902–1933)
• Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961)
• George Paxton (1914–1989)
• Joe Venuti (1903–1978)
• Chick Webb (1905–1939)
• 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. Silsbee, Kirk (2016-08-31). "John Beasley's MONK'estra Reinvents Thelonious Monk for the 21st Century". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
4. Williams acknowledges that "Young himself gave most of the credit to 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).
5. Pulitzer Prize Winners Special Awards and Citations 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners Special Awards and Citations
6. Watrous, P. Dizzy Gillespie, Who Sounded Some of Modern Jazz's Earliest Notes, Dies at 75, NY Times Obituary, January 7, 1993
7. 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
8. "Swing Music History" Archived 2010-02-28 at the Wayback Machine, last accessed Jan 12, 2010

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