WILKINS, ERNEST BROOKS

WILKINS, ERNEST BROOKS (ERNIE). Jazz saxophonist (20 July 1922 in St. Louis, Missouri). He studied piano as a child but changed to tenor saxophone during his high-school years and began playing with local groups. He obtained his musical training in the public schools of St. Louis, at Wilberforce [Ohio] College, and at the United States Navy School of Music. He played with Clark Terry and George Hudson in St. Louis before he left to serve in the U. S. Armed Forces...