WMartha Boswell Lloyd was the eldest of the vocal trio the Boswell Sisters. Her younger sisters were Connee and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell.
WJames Alfred Conrad Cammack Jr. is an American jazz bassist from Cornwall, New York.
WMilton Cardona was a percussionist, vocalist and conga player from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
W"Big Eye" Louis Nelson Delisle was an early twentieth-century Dixieland jazz clarinetist in New Orleans, Louisiana. He also played double bass, banjo, and accordion.
WWayne Dockery was an American jazz double bassist who worked with George Benson, Sonny Fortune, Eddie Henderson, Hal Galper, Archie Shepp, Michael Brecker, and others. He appears on albums from at least 1971, although never as a bandleader.
WPeter Ecklund was an American jazz cornetist.
WNathan Glantz was an early 20th-century American jazz bandleader.
WDarryl Hall is an American jazz bassist. He was born in Philadelphia and won the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Bass Competition in 1995.
WBob Helm was a jazz clarinetist who is known for playing with Lu Watters and Turk Murphy.
WJames Monte Maloney, known professionally as Jimmy Joy, was an American saxophonist, clarinetist, singer, and big band leader. His claim to fame was his ability to play two clarinets at the same time.
WHarlan Leonard was an American jazz bandleader and clarinetist from Kansas City, Missouri.
WJack Lesberg was a jazz double-bassist.
WHerbie Lewis was an American jazz double bassist. He played or recorded with Cannonball Adderley, Stanley Turrentine, Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, Harold Land, Jackie McLean, Archie Shepp, and McCoy Tyner.
WGustave "Gussie" Mueller was an early jazz clarinetist.
WWalter Payton, Jr. was an American jazz bassist and sousaphonist.
WMike Pingitore (1888–1952) was a member of Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. Whiteman discovered him playing tenor banjo and he became part of the rhythm section for his newly-formed band for the Alexandria Hotel in Los Angeles, playing there for its entire existence (1919–1948) except for a brief period in 1923 due to illness. Pingitore played banjo on Art Mooney's "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover", which was a number one hit on the Billboard magazine pop chart in 1948.
WMartin Pizzarelli is an American jazz double-bassist known for his work with his brother John Pizzarelli, appearing on many of his albums in a swing trio that includes pianists Ray Kennedy and Larry Fuller. He has recorded one album as bandleader for Victoria Records with Kennedy and his father, legendary swing guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He has also appeared on all albums released by John's wife, Jessica Molaskey.
WBoyd Albert Raeburn was an American jazz bandleader and bass saxophonist.
WJohn Robichaux, sometimes spelled Robechaux, was an American jazz bandleader, drummer, and violinist. He was the uncle of Joseph Robichaux.
WJenny Scheinman is a jazz violinist. She has produced several critically acclaimed solo albums, including 12 Songs, named one of the Top Ten Albums of 2005 by The New York Times. She has played with Linda Perry, Norah Jones, Nels Cline, Lou Reed, Ani Difranco, Bruce Cockburn, Aretha Franklin, Lucinda Williams, Bono, Bill Frisell, the Hot Club of San Francisco, and Allison Miller.
WCecil Scott was an American jazz clarinetist, tenor saxophonist, and bandleader.
WLynn Seaton is a jazz bassist associated with bebop and swing.
WBen Street is an American jazz double bassist. Street has performed and recorded with many renowned artists, including John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Ben Monder, Michael Eckroth, Sam Rivers, Billy Hart, Danilo Perez, Aaron Parks, and Adam Cruz, among others.
WWilliam Tapia, known as "Uncle Bill" and "Tappy", was an American musician, born to Portuguese parents. At age 8, Tapia was already a professional musician, playing "Stars and Stripes Forever" for World War I troops in Hawaii.
WNéstor Torres is a jazz flautist born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 1957. He took flute lessons at age 12 and began formal studies at the Escuela Libre de Música, eventually attending Puerto Rico’s Inter-American University. At 18, he moved to New York with his family. Torres went on to study both jazz and classical music at the Mannes College of Music in New York and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, among other places.