Phil Stephens

American jazz bassist and tuba player (born April 24 1907 in Atlanta, Georgia – died May 29, 1996 in Los Angeles, California). Born to a Greek immigrant merchant in Atlanta, Georgia, Stephens, a self-taught musician, toured with Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It was Tommy Dorsey who awarded him his nickname Phil "The Chief" Stephens.