American jazz (and early rhythm and blues) trumpeter, singer and bandleader.
Played with : Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Earl Bostic, Arnett Cobb, Flip Wilson, Harry Belafonte, The Drifters, The Coasters and others.
Nickname : Tanglefoot.

Born : 1920 in Stanton, Virginia.
Died : January 29, 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland.