Wallace Jones

American jazz trumpeter, born November 16, 1906 in Baltimore, Maryland, died March 23, 1983 in New York. Jones moved to New York in the mid-1930s, played briefly with his cousin Chick Webb and then with Willie Bryant 1936-1937. He recorded with Putney Dandridge (1936) and with Duke Ellington (1936-1943, 1947) and belonged to Ellington's orchestra 1938-1944.