{{Short description|Barbadian jazz trumpeter}} '''Dave Wilkins''' (September 25, 1914 – November 26, 1990)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qM16DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22dave+wilkins%22.+%221914%22.+%22november+26%2C+1990%22.+jazz&pg=PA158|title=Early Jazz Trumpet Legends|first=Larry|last=Kemp|page=158|date=16 October 2018|publisher=Dorrance Publishing|isbn=9781480976375|access-date=18 October 2021|via=Google Books}}</ref> was a Barbadian jazz trumpeter.
Wilkins first played in Salvation Army bands in his native Barbados.<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|pages=2685/6}}</ref> In 1937, he moved to London, England, where he worked with Ken Snakehips Johnson's West Indian Swing Band among others.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He recorded with Una Mae Carlisle and Fats Waller in 1938, and continued to work with Johnson until 1941. In 1949, he was a member of the group that played the first night of BBC Jazz Cub.<ref>Brian Gladwell.‘Happy Birthday, Jazz Club’. ''Crescendo''. March 1967, p39.</ref> Following this, he played with English jazz musicians such as Ted Heath, Harry Parry, Joe Daniels and Cab Kaye.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He stopped playing in the 1970s and died in 1990.
==See also== *First English Public Jam Session
==References== ;Footnotes {{Reflist}}
;General references *[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p220012/biography|pure_url=yes}} Dave Wilkins] at AllMusic
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100611144325/http://vzone.virgin.net/davidh.taylor/wilkins.htm Biography]
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