SMITH, CLADYS

SMITH, CLADYS (JABBO). Jazz trumpeter (24 December 1908 in Pembroke, Georgia). He grew up in the Jenkins's Orphanage Home in Charleston, South Carolina, where he studied trumpet and trombone and toured with the orphanage band from the age of ten. At sixteen he began playing professionally with Harry Marsh in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thereafter he played with various groups, including Gus Aiken, Charlie Johnson (1925-28), James P. Johnson (1928, including tours with the Keep...