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Sidney Desvigne
Sidney Desvigne
American musician
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Singleton Palmer
Singleton Palmer
American musician
2
Ed Allen
Ed Allen
musician
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Butch Ballard
Butch Ballard
American jazz drummer
4
Clark Terry
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
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William Thornton Blue
William Thornton Blue
American musician
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Harry Edison
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
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Everett Barksdale
Everett Barksdale
American jazz guitarist
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Quentin Jackson
Quentin Jackson
American musician
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Pops Foster
Pops Foster
American musician
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John Lindsay
John Lindsay
American jazz musician
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Louis Metcalf
Louis Metcalf
American musician
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Jerome Don Pasquall
Jerome Don Pasquall
American musician
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Buddy Childers
Buddy Childers
American musician
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Al Porcino
Al Porcino
American musician
15
Bob Shoffner
Bob Shoffner
American musician
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Nappy Lamare
Nappy Lamare
American musician
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Nick LaRocca
Nick LaRocca
American jazz musician
18
Gene Sedric
Gene Sedric
American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist
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Pee Wee Russell
Pee Wee Russell
American musician
20
Jonah Jones
Jonah Jones
American musician
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Tommy Ladnier
Tommy Ladnier
Jazz cornetist/trumpeter
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Frank Rosolino
Frank Rosolino
American jazz trombonist
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Jimmy Heath
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
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Conte Candoli
Conte Candoli
American musician
25
Budd Johnson
Budd Johnson
American musician
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Red Mitchell
Red Mitchell
American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet
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Bobby Hackett
Bobby Hackett
American jazz musician
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Juan Tizol
Juan Tizol
Puerto Rican trombonist and composer
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Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
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Don Stovall
Don Stovall
American musician
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George Duvivier
George Duvivier
American musician
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Red Allen
Red Allen
American jazz musician, band leader
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Ernie Wilkins
Ernie Wilkins
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and music arranger
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Julius Watkins
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
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Guy Lombardo
Guy Lombardo
Canadian-American bandleader
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Wendell Marshall
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
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Ernie Royal
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
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Patrick O'Hearn
Patrick O'Hearn
American recording artist, multi-instrumentalist and composer
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Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
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Joshua Redman
Joshua Redman
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Phil Woods
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
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Bill Chase
Bill Chase
American trumpeter
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Dianne Reeves
Dianne Reeves
American jazz singer
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Terry Knight and the Pack
Terry Knight and the Pack
American rock band
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Britt Woodman
Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
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Jack Nimitz
Jack Nimitz
American saxophonist
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Al Grey
Al Grey
American jazz musician
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Luis Conte
Luis Conte
Cuban jazz musician
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Stan Levey
Stan Levey
American musician
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Zoot Sims
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
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Jimmy Woode
Jimmy Woode
American bassist
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Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
53
Louie Bellson
Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
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Haywood Henry
Haywood Henry
American jazz baritone saxophonist
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Edmond Hall
Edmond Hall
American jazz clarinetist
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Max Roach
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
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Billy Mitchell
Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Norman Mason
Norman Mason
American bandleader, conductor and jazz musician
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Charlie Shavers
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
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Bix Beiderbecke
Bix Beiderbecke
American jazz musician
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Louis Hayes
Louis Hayes
American drummer
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Ernie Watts
Ernie Watts
American jazz musician
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Monty Alexander
Monty Alexander
Jamaican pianist
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Bill Crow
Bill Crow
American bassist
65
Herb Geller
Herb Geller
American saxophonist (1928-2013)
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Eddie Bert
Eddie Bert
American musician
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Victor Gaskin
Victor Gaskin
American bassist
68
Louis Prima
Louis Prima
American singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter (1910-1978)
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Red Nichols
Red Nichols
American jazz musician
70
Wardell Gray
Wardell Gray
American musician
71
Snooky Young
Snooky Young
American musician
72
Kid Rena
Kid Rena
American musician
73
Joe Maini
Joe Maini
American musician
74
Chase
Chase
American jazz-rock fusion band
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Chico O'Farrill
Chico O'Farrill
Cuban composer and musician
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Paul Jackson
Paul Jackson
American musician
Dewey Jackson
American jazz musician

Dewey Jackson

Intro
American jazz musician
Genres
Music

Dewey Jackson (June 21, 1900 – January 1, 1994) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.

Jackson began playing professionally at an early age, with the Odd Fellows Boys' Band (1912), Tommy Evans (1916–17), and George Reynolds's Keystone Band. He played with Charlie Creath on riverboats, then led his Golden Melody Band from 1920 to 1923. In 1926 he performed with his St. Louis Charleston Peacock Band on the Streckfus Steamboat Lines' steamer Capitol. He continued to be a regular performer on riverboats into the early 1940s, heading his groups and working as a sideman for Creath and Fate Marable. He was briefly away from boats in 1926 when he played for four months with Andrew Preer at the Cotton Club in New York City.

From 1937 to 1941, Jackson led the Dewey Jackson's Musical Ambassadors on riverboats but also led bands on land.

Jackson played little in the 1940s but returned to work in the 1950s with Singleton Palmer and Don Ewell. He recorded four sides as a leader in 1926. The album Live at the Barrel, 1952 with 10 tracks on the Delmark label was released in 2006. Among his sidemen were Pops Foster, Willie Humphrey, Don Stovall, Morris White, Albert Snaer, William Thornton Blue, and Clark Terry.