Jimmy Harrison

Jimmy Harrison ( born October 17, 1900 in Louisville (Kentucky ) and James Henry Harrison; † July 23, 1931 in New York City ) was an American jazz trombonist and singer of the swing.

Jimmy Harrison began in 1916 to play jazz in Detroit, went in the following years with smaller formations on tour. He heard in 1922 Louis Armstrong and King Oliver in Chicago. He then went to New York and played with Fess Williams, June Clark, Elmer Snowden and Billy Fowler (1926, together with Tommy Ladnier and Benny Carter ).

Harrison was also a short time at Duke Ellington and from 1926 to 1931 member of the orchestra of Fletcher Henderson. He did not take but usually at the tours the band's part, but worked in such periods in the band of Charlie Johnson. He contributed to the legendary session of Chocolate Dandies with Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins end of 1930. Several months until his death in 1931 he was engaged at Chick Webb. Jimmy Harrison took over his short career on records with Benny Carter, Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Bessie Smith and Webb.