FULLER, WALTER

FULLER, WALTER (ROSETTA). Jazz trumpeter (15 February 1910 in Dyersburg, Tennessee). He came from a musical family: his father played mellophone in a brass band, and his brother became a professional trumpeter. He began playing professionally at the age of twelve. He toured with Dr. Stoll's medicine show during summers for three years, then went to Chicago, Illinois, about 1925. During the decades of the 1920s-30s he played with various groups, including Sammy Stewart (1927-30), ...