R.Q. Dickerson

Early jazz trumpeter, born c. 1898 in Paducah, Kentucky, died January 21, 1951 in Glens Falls, New York. Dickerson grew up in St. Louis, where he played in local theatres 1918-1920; toured with Wilson Robinson's Bostonians in 1923, after which the band took up residency at the Cotton Club in New York under leadership of Andy Preer. When Preer died in 1927 the band worked as the Cotton Club Orchestra, then as The Missourians, to become Cab Calloway And His Orchestra in 1930. Dickerson left Calloway in 1931 and ceased to work as a musician.