HAWKINS, ERSKINE RAMSAY

HAWKINS, ERSKINE RAMSAY. Jazz trumpeter, (26 July 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama). He began playing drums at the age of seven, later changed to trombone, and then to trumpet when he was thirteen. He played in a neighborhood band as a child. He obtained his musical education in the public schools and Tuggle Institute of Birmingham, Alabama, and at Alabama State Teachers College in Montgomery, where he played with the ’Bama State Collegians . In 1936 he went to New York and made...