List of big band musicians explained

The following is a list of big band musicians.

• Ray Anthony (b. 1922)
• Buster Bailey (1902 - 1967)^[1]
• Count Basie (1904 - 1984)^[2]
• John Beasley (b. 1960)^[3]
• Bix Beiderbecke (1903 - 1931)^[4]
• Les Brown (1912–2001)
• Xavier Cugat (1900 - 1990)
• Jimmy Dorsey (1904 - 1957)
• Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)^[5]
• Chico Freeman (b. 1949)
• Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993)^[6]
• Lionel Hampton (1908 - 2002)
• Andy Kirk (1898 - 1992)^[7]
• Eddie Lang (1902 - 1933)
• Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961)
• George Paxton (1914 - 1989)
• Joe Venuti (1903 - 1978)
• Chick Webb (1905 - 1939)^[8]
• Teddy Wilson (1912 - 1986)

References

See also: List of big bands, List of American big band bandleaders and List of British big band leaders.

Notes and 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. Web site: John Beasley's MONK'estra Reinvents Thelonious Monk for the 21st Century. Silsbee. Kirk. 2016-08-31. LA Weekly. en-US. 2020-01-12.
4. 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).
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. https://books.google.com/books?id=FK50ScZXeIoC&dq=%22Reuben+Phillips%22+AND+sax&pg=PA71 Evans, Joe and Brooks, Christopher Follow your heart: moving with the giants of jazz, swing, and rhythm and blues. University of Illinois Press, 2008
8. http://www.tomsmithbigband.com/swing-music-history.html "Swing Music History"