Tommy Stevenson

This trumpeter was nicknamed “Steve” but shouldn’t be confused with the saxophonist Steve Stevenson whose baritone work was heard with arranger and bandleader Oliver Nelson. Trumpeter Tommy Stevenson was energetic in an previous era, his brief career occurring during the center from the golf swing years. Not really a great deal is well known about his history other than the entire year of his delivery and the actual fact that from 1933 he was area of the Jimmie Lunceford brass section for quite some time. In the summertime of 1935 the trumpeter started accompanying vocalist Blanche Calloway, sister from the better-known Cab Calloway. Stevenson documented in 1936 with Don Redman. After that discographers grab his path of valve spit with numerous outfits including masterful tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. Stevenson also was section of a little group fronted by amusing vocalist and guitarist Slim Gaillard through the early ’40s. Carrying out a stint with Lucky Millinder it had been misfortune that anticipated the trumpeter within the Cootie Williams music group. It had been something very much worse compared to the “cooties” of child years video games that Stevenson captured on tour with Williams, a fatal stress of lobar pneumonia to become exact.