CHEATHAM, ADOLPHUS ANTHONY (DOC
). Jazz trumpeter ( in Nashville, Tennessee). As a child he played cornet and played in a local church boy's band, where he took lessons from the bandleader. At an early age he began playing in the pit orchestra of the local Bijou Theatre, where the visiting shows included such singers as Clara Smith, Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, and
Gertrude (Ma
) Rainey
. About 1924 he began touring with bands, playing saxophone as well as trumpet,...