name

Rex Stewart, Trumpet/Cornet

dates

b. February 22, 1907; d. September 07, 1967

birth place

Philadelphia, PA

description

A successor to Bubber Miley in his use of squeezed tone and half-valve effects, spent over ten years with Ellington band, and played with Fletcher and Horace Henderson, McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, and Luis Russell.

hot disc

Big Reunion (The)

more info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Stewart