"Big Chief" Russell Moore

American jazz trombonist (born August 13, 1912 in Sacaton, Arizona - died Decenber 15, 1983 in Nyack, New York). Moore was a Pima American Indian, and lived in Blue Island, Illinois from age twelve, where he studied trumpet, piano, drums, french horn, and trombone. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1930s, where he worked freelance with Lionel Hampton (1935), Eddie Barefield, and others.