Effective period / Period of releases: 1954 - 1983

Members: Dick Hyman, J.J. Johnson, Jimmy Cleveland, Joe Benjamin, Romeo Penque, Milt Hinton, Harry Edison, Danny Bank, Phil Bodner, Barry Galbraith, Urbie Green, Osie Johnson, Mal Waldron, Janet Putnam, Ray Ellis, Al Cohn, Don Lamond, Hank Jones, Joe Wilder, Billy Byers, Gene Quill, Thomas Mitchell, Bradley Spinney, Thomas Parshley, Ed Powell