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Dewey Jackson
9+ albums
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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, and then led his own Golden Melody Band from 1920 to 1923. In 1926, he performed with his St. Louis Charleston Peacock Band on the Streckfus Steamboat Lines' new steamer, Capitol. He continued to be a regular performer on riverboats into the early 1940s, heading his own groups and working as a sideman for Creath and Fate Marable. His only major stint off boats during this time was in 1926, when he played for four months with Andrew Preer at the Cotton Club in New York City. Jackson played little in the 1940s but returned to work in the 1950s with Singleton Palmer and Don Ewell. He recorded only four sides as a leader in 1926. Among his sidemen were Pops Foster, Willie Humphrey, Don Stovall, Morris White, Albert Snaer, William Thornton Blue, and Clark Terry. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
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St. James Infirmary
1172O.B. Calls Dewey/Turpentine Woods Holler/What A Friend We Have In Jesu s/Cows In The Corn
843When The Saints Go Marching In
594Royal Garden Blues
175Tiger Rag
156That's A Plenty
127Tishamingo
98I Shall Not Be Moved - the Old Grey Goose
89High Society
710O.B. Calls Dewey - Turpentine Woods Holler / What a Friend We Have In Jesus / Cows in the Corn
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