Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, The Benny Goodman Quartet, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Earl Hines, Miles Davis, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Lena Horne, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz. Modern Jazz Quartet, Afterword