| DUKEELLINGTON | US bandleader and pianist, 1899-1974 (4,9) |
| ELLINGTON | Bandleader and pianist, 1899-1974, awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 1999 (9) |
| PHILHARRIS | US bandleader and actor married to actress Alice Faye from 1941-95 (4,6) |
| GLENNMILLER | US bandleader who composed Moonlight Serenade and who disappeared during a flight from England to France in 1944 (5,6) |
| SPIKEJONES | US bandleader of the 1940s and 50s, whose name sounds like a director * (10) |
| ARTIE | - Shaw, US bandleader |
| DUKE | ___ Ellington, US bandleader (4) |
| GLENN | _ Miller, US bandleader (5) |
| COUNTBASIE | US bandleader (5,5) |
| BENNY | ***** Goodman, US bandleader known as the 'King of Swing' (5) |
| BASIE | Count -- -, 20th Century American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (5) |
| CAB | US jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor, --- Calloway (3) |
| PERCYFAITH | 50s and 60s bandleader and orchestrator, born in Toronto |
| OTT | Horace, US, bandleader who worked with The Shirelles, Nina Simone etc. (3) |
| PAULWHITEMAN | US bandleader known as The King of Jazz who died in 1967 (4,8) |
| CALLOWAY | Cab --------, US bandleader who guest-starred in the 1980s comedy film The Blues Brothers (8) |
| EARLHINES | U.S. jazz pianist, bandleader and composer, born in 1903 (4,5) |
| WOODYHERMAN | Jazz bandleader and lover of forests? |
| COTTONWOOL | This material absorbs bandleader and court trainee (6,4) |
| COMBO | Foreign city's entertaining bandleader and jazz group |
