NANTON, JOSEPH (TRICKY SAM
). Jazz trombonist ( in New York, New York; in San Francisco, California). He obtained his musical training in the public schools of New York. During the 1920s he played with various groups, among them, Cliff Jackson (1921-23, 1925), Earl Frazier's Harmony Five (1923-24), and Elmer Snowden (1925). He then joined
Edward (Duke
) Ellington
(1925-46), where he was taught by James (Bubber
) Miley how to produce growls
on his trombone by using...
NANTON, JOSEPH
(1904–1946)> JAZZ TROMBONIST