CREATH, CHARLES CYRIL

CREATH, CHARLES CYRIL (CHARLIE). Jazz trumpeter (30 December 1890 in Ironton, Missouri; 23 October 1951 in Chicago, Illinois). He came from a musical family: two sisters played piano. He began playing alto saxophone, then changed to trumpet during his high-school years. About 1906 he began touring with various groups, including P. G. Lowery's orchestra, Drake and Walker's show, and the Hagen Beck-Wallace Circus band, among others. He settled in St. Louis, Missouri, about 1918 and thereafter...