Trombones

Trumpet

Louis Armstrong

Miles Davis

Dizzy Gillespie

Clifford Brown

Saxophone

Charlie Parker

John Coltrane (High Point, NC Native)

Sonny Rollins

Dexter Gordon

Lester Young

Stan Getz

Drummers

Elvin Jones

Max Roach (Pasquoatank, NC native)

Papa Jo Jones-Basie Band

Philly Joe Jones-Miles Davis

Jimmy Cobb

Buddy Rich

Louis Bellson

Tony Williams

Pianist

Duke Ellington

Count Basie

Thelonious Monk (Rocky Mount, NC Native)

Chick Corea

Bassist

Charles Mingus

Percy Heath (Wilmington, NC Native