| SOME NICKNAMES | |
| (Bet you don't know them all) | |
| A Living Legend | Doc Cheatham |
| Big Sid | Sid Catlett |
| Ding-dong | Ray Brown |
| Fatha | Earl Hines |
| Floorshow | Ray Nance |
| Jiggs | Hayden Whigham |
| Klook | Kenny Clarke |
| Little Jazz | Roy Eldridge |
| Old Groaner | Bing Crosby |
| Orange | Herb Ellis |
| Peanuts | Michael Hucko |
| Pepper | Park Adams |
| Rabbit | Johnny Hodges |
| Reuters | Ted Heath |
| Shake | Ellsworth McGranahan Keane |
| Shorty | Milton M. Rajonsky (Shorty Rogers) |
| Skeets | Arthur Herfurt |
| Slow Drag | Alcide Pavageau |
| Snookie (Snooky) | Eugene Edward Young |
| Steps | Barney Bigard |
| Stuff | Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith |
| Superman | Pete Candoli |
| The Baron | Tony Crombie |
| The Dirty Bopper | Bruce Turner |
| The Guvnor | Frank Sinatra |
| The Steamer | Stan Getz |
| The Velvet Fog | Mel Tormé |
| Toots | Jean Baptiste Thielemans |
| See more at Jazz Musician Pseudonyms | |