{{short description|American jazz trumpeter and cornetist (1900–1994)}}{{Infobox musical artist | name = Dewey Jackson | birth_date = June 21, 1900 | birth_place = [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], U.S. | death_date = January 1, 1994 (aged 93) | death_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | genre = [[Jazz]] | instruments = [[Cornet]], [[trumpet]] }}

'''Dewey Jackson''' (June 21, 1900 – January 1, 1994) was an American [[jazz]] trumpeter and [[cornet]]ist.

== Early life == Jackson was a native of [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jazz |first=All About |title=Dewey Jackson musician - All About Jazz |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/dewey-jackson |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=All About Jazz Musicians |date=26 July 2007 |language=en}}</ref>

== Career == Jackson began playing professionally at an early age, with the Odd Fellows Boys' Band (1912), Tommy Evans (1916–17), and [[George Reynolds (musician)|George Reynolds]]'s Keystone Band. He played with [[Charlie Creath]] on riverboats, then led his Golden Melody Band from 1920 to 1923. In 1926, he performed with his St. Louis Charleston Peacock Band on the Streckfus Steamboat Lines' steamer ''Capitol''.<ref>"The Behrman Civic League invites you to attend Grand Moonlight River Ride and Dance DeLuxe." Ticket. February 25, 1926. Martin Shepard Office Records, [http://seaa.tulane.edu Southeastern Architectural Archive], Special Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries; "Steamer Capitol", ''The Times-Picayune'' (April 2, 1926): pg. 4.</ref>

He continued to be a regular performer on riverboats into the early 1940s, heading his groups and working as a sideman for Creath and [[Fate Marable]]. He was briefly away from boats in 1926 when he played for four months with [[Andrew Preer]] at the [[Cotton Club]] in New York City. From 1937 to 1941, Jackson led the Dewey Jackson's Musical Ambassadors on riverboats but also led bands on land.<ref>{{Cite book|title=City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis, 1895-1973|last=Owsley|first=Dennis|date=2006|publisher=Reedy Press|others=Terry, Clark., Sheldon Art Galleries|isbn=1933370041|location=St. Louis, Mo. |pages=67–68 |oclc=71122278}}</ref>

Jackson played little in the 1940s but returned to work in the 1950s with [[Singleton Palmer]] and [[Don Ewell]]. He recorded four sides as a leader in 1926. The album ''Live at the Barrel, 1952'' with 10 tracks on the Delmark label was released in 2006. Among his sidemen were [[Pops Foster]], [[Willie Humphrey]], [[Don Stovall]], [[Morris White]], [[Albert Snaer]], [[William Thornton Blue]], and [[Clark Terry]].{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

==References==

<references /> * "Steamer Capitol." ''The [[Times-Picayune]]'' (1 April 1926): p.&nbsp;4. * "The Behrman Civic League invites you to attend Grand Moonlight River Ride and Dance DeLuxe." Ticket. 25 February 1926. Martin Shepard Office Records, [http://seaa.tulane.edu Southeastern Architectural Archive], Special Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries

==Sources== *[[Scott Yanow]], [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p358563/biography|pure_url=yes}} Dewey Jackson] at [[Allmusic]]

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