Effective period / Period of releases: 1945 - 1996

Members: Sarah Vaughan, Frank Wess, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Gene Ammons, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon, Tommy Potter, Oscar Pettiford, Clyde Hart, Wardell Gray, Ray Linn, Claude Jones, Trummy Young, Fats Navarro, Billy Eckstine, Jimmy Powell, Budd Johnson, Sonny Criss, Tate Houston, Raymond Orr, Cecil Payne, Al Killian, Rudy Rutherford, Shadow Wilson, Norris Turney, Leo Parker, Taswell Baird, Hobart Dotson, King Kolax, Gail Brockman, Leonard Hawkins, John Jackson (7), Linton Garner, Bill Frazier, Freddie Webster, Tim Kennedy, Gerald Valentine (2), Shorty McConnell, John Malachi, Connie Wainwright, Marion "Boonie" Hazel, Alfred "Chippy" Outcalt, Jimmy Golden, Walter Knox, Richard Ellington, Warren Bracken, John Cobbs, Bob "Junior" Williams, Arthur Sammons, Bill McMahon, Josh Jackson, John "Shifty" Henry, Robert Scott (4), Teddy Cypron, Thomas Crump, Howard Scott (5)