Rushing, James Andrew Jimmy

Rushing, James Andrew Jimmy 26 August 1903; Oklahoma City, OK – 8 June 1972; New York City, NY Raised in a musical family in which his father played trumpet and his mother and brother were singers, Rushing took violin lessons as a child and was taught to play piano by his cousin, Wesley Manning. After graduating from the Douglass High School in Oklahoma City, he moved to California in 1923, returning home two years later to sing with the Billy King Revue, the musicians from which would become…