Louis Armstrong (with Willie "The Lion" Smith, Count Basie, and Eddie Condon) -- Sidney Bechet -- Willie "The Lion" Smith -- W.C. Handy -- Scrapper Blackwell -- Muggsy Spanier (with George Brunis) -- Joe Venuti (with Max Kaminsky) -- Stephane Grappelli -- Jack Teagarden -- Doc Cheatham -- Eddie Condon -- Bobby Hackett (with Wild Bill Davidson) -- Pee Wee Russell -- George Van Eps -- Eddie Miller -- Red Allen (with Sam Price) -- Hot Lips Page -- Johnny Hodges -- Harry Carney and Lawrence Brown -- Lester Young -- Helen Humes and Jimmy Rushing -- Bob Haggart -- Art Tatum -- Arvell Shaw -- Joe Wilder -- Jonah Jones -- Gerry Mulligan and Coleman Hawkins (with Bill Crow and Bob Brookmeyer) -- Zoot Sims -- Jake Hanna -- Barney Kessel -- Charlie Byrd -- Mary Lou Williams -- Marian McPartland -- Erroll Garner -- Conte Candoli (with Bud Shank and Pete Candoli) -- Charlie Parker (with Dizzy Gillespie) -- Thelonious Monk -- Lennie Tristano and George Shearing -- Yusef Lateef -- Horace Silver -- Junior Mance -- Oscar Peterson and Ray Brown -- Wes Montgomery -- Keter Betts -- Dizzy Gillespie (with Miles Davis) -- Miles Davis -- John Coltrane (with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones) -- Elvin Jones -- Bobby Gordon, Randy Reinhart, and John Sheridan -- Marty Grosz -- Dick Wellstood -- Scott Hamilton -- Paul Bacon -- David Frishberg -- Dan Levinson and Dan Barrett -- Howard Alden -- Michiko Ogawa -- Joe Williams -- Anita O'Day -- Bobby Short -- John Hammond -- George Avakian -- Nat Hentoff -- Dan Morgenstern -- Epilogue : Milt Hilton and "A Case for the Judge".