DASH, ST. JULIAN BENNETT

DASH, ST. JULIAN BENNETT. Jazz saxophonist (9 April 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina; 24 February 1974 in New York, New York). During his high-school days he played with local bands. After settling in New York during the 1930s he led his own band in Harlem; in 1938 he joined Erskine Hawkins , whom he had known during his study at Alabama State College. After over twenty years of performing with Hawkins, he left music, then returned to lead his own quintet in...