William "Billy" Usselton (July 2, 1926 – September 5, 1994) was an American jazz reed player.
Proficient on tenor saxophone, clarinet, and oboe, he began playing professionally in high school with Bubbles Becker.
[1] Usselton then played with Sonny Dunham in the 1940s before joining Ray Anthony in 1948–1949 and again in 1951–1952.
[2] In the interim, he joined Tommy Dorsey's band and recommended Mel Lewis after Buddy Rich was fired.
Billy and family lived in Chicago in the 1960s where he gigged and was a jazz clinician for the Conn Corporation.