Harry "Sweets" Edison was an American jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. His most important contribution was as a Hollywood studio musician, whose muted trumpet can be heard backing singers, most notably Frank Sinatra.
Pete Candoli was an American jazz trumpeter. He played with the big bands of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton and worked in the studios of the recording and television industries.
Al Grey was an American jazz trombonist who was a member of the Count Basie orchestra. He was known for his plunger mute technique and wrote an instructional book in 1987 called Plunger Techniques.
The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16 to 18 piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the Big Band era itself and the death of Basie in 1984. It continues under the direction of trumpeter Scotty Barnhart.
Frederick William Green was an American swing jazz guitarist who played rhythm guitar with the Count Basie Orchestra for almost fifty years.
Marshal Walton Royal Jr. was an American jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist best known for his work with Count Basie, with whose band he played for nearly twenty years.
Charles Baker Fowlkes was an American baritone saxophonist who was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra for over twenty-five years.
Sonny Payne was an American jazz drummer, best known for his work with Count Basie and Harry James.
Discography for jazz double-bassist and cellist Ray Brown.
Grover Mitchell, born Grover Curry Mitchell was an American jazz trombonist who led the Count Basie Orchestra.
Albert Aarons was an American jazz trumpeter.
Britt Woodman was an American jazz trombonist.
This is the discography of recordings by Duke Ellington, including those nominally led by his sidemen, and his later collaborations with musicians with whom Ellington had generally not previously recorded.
George "Buster" Cooper was an American jazz trombonist.
Mitchell W. Wood, better known as Booty Wood was an American jazz trombonist.
Norman Dewey Keenan was an American jazz double-bassist.
Benny Powell was an American jazz trombonist. He played both standard (tenor) trombone and bass trombone.
The following is the discography for big band and traditional pop arranger Nelson Riddle (1921–1985).
George Thomas Cohn, known professionally as Sonny Cohn, was an American jazz trumpeter whose career spanned over six decades. After working for fifteen years with Red Saunders (1945–1960), Cohn went on to spend another twenty four years in Count Basie's trumpet section (1960–1984).
William Henry Hughes was an American jazz trombonist and bandleader. He spent most of his career with the Count Basie Orchestra and was the director of that ensemble until September 2010.
