Effective period / Period of releases: 1933 - 1972

Members: Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson, Johnny Williams, Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, Pierre Michelot, Coleman Hawkins, J.J. Johnson, Oscar Pettiford, Clyde Hart, John Kirby, Curly Russell, Denzil Best, Shelly Manne, Hank Jones, Al Casey, Howard McGhee, Jack Lesberg, Maurice Brown, Bill Coleman (2), Horace Henderson, Bernard Addison, Claude Jones, Walter Johnson, J.C. Higginbotham, Hilton Jefferson, Lawrence Lucie, Sandy Williams, Fats Navarro, Sir Charles Thompson, Allan Reuss, Arthur Herbert, Billy Taylor Sr., Ernie Powell, Sidney Catlett, Kermit Scott, J.C. Heard, Budd Johnson, Thelma Carpenter, Joe Guy, Jackie Fields, Gene Rodgers, William Oscar Smith, Eustis Moore, Earl Hardy, Tommy Lindsay, Chuck Wayne, Henry "Red" Allen, Leo Parker, John Simmons, Jean-Paul Mengeon, Bill Dillard, Ray Abrams, Zelly Smirnoff, Eugene Fields, William Cato, Nelson Bryant, George Brown (5), Porter Kilbert, Jimmy Shirley, Ellis Larkins, Marion DeVeta, Tommy Stevenson, Vic Coulson, Andy Fitzgerald, Dolores Martin, Howard Johnson (6), Leonard Lowry, Gene Fields, Gladys Madden, Leslie Scott (3), Billy Kato, Benjamin Lambert (4)