Bobby Johnson (27)

US jazz trumpeter from Pensacola, Florida, active in the late 40s/50s. Johnson traveled extensively, playing jazz music and keeping apartments in Kansas City, Chicago and New York. In the 1970s, as big band gave way to rock ‘n’ roll, Johnson made his home in Ellenville. He was the first black musician to play in a show band at the Granit Hotel in Kerhonkson. Born in 1915. Died in 2001.