MILEY, JAMES WESLEY

MILEY, JAMES WESLEY (BUBBER). Jazz trumpeter (19 January 1903 in Aiken, South Carolina; 24 May 1932 in New York, New York). His family moved to New York when he was a child. He first played professionally with local groups, then toured in the early 1920s with Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds and later with a revue. In 1923 he joined the Washingtonians, at that time under the leadership of Elmer Snowden, and remained with the orchestra after Edward (DukeDuke...