Leslie George "Jiver" Hutchinson (March 6, 1906 - November 22, 1959) was a Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 trumpeter and bandleader.
Hutchinson played in the band of Bertie King

Bertie King

Albert "Bertie" King was a Jamaican jazz and mento musician.King, a saxophonist, was born in Panama, and raised in Kingston, where he attended Alpha Boys' School; where he was taught by Sister Mary Ignatius Davis, a remarkable woman who nurtured the talents of many of the leading Jamaican...

 in Jamaica in the 1930s, then moved to England

England

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, where he played with Happy Blake's Cuba Club Band. In 1936 he played in Leslie Thompson

Leslie Thompson (musician)

Leslie Anthony Joseph Thompson was a Jamaican jazz trumpeter.Thompson played in the West India Regiment band and played locally in Kingston movie palaces in the 1920s, then moved to London in 1929. In 1930 he began playing with Spike Hughes, where he played trumpet, trombone, and double bass until...

's Emperors of Jazz and in 1938 with Ken Snakehips Johnson

Ken Snakehips Johnson

Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson was a jazz band leader and dancer.Born Kenrick Reginald Hymans Johnson, and originally from British Guiana, Johnson's parents sent him to the UK at the age of 15, where he attended Sir William Borlase's Grammar School, before studying medicine at Edinburgh University...

, then joined Geraldo's band in 1939. He led his own ensemble from 1944 to 1950, featuring many of the musicians from Thompson's band. His ensemble toured the UK and Europe, and did concerts in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 in 1945. He also recorded with the ensemble in 1947. He returned to play with Geraldo after the group's dissolution, and recorded with Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Williams wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements, and recorded more than one hundred records...

 in 1952.

Hutchinson was killed in a car crash in Weeting

Weeting

Weeting is a village in Norfolk, England.Its church, St. Mary, stands close to Weeting Castle, and is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.During the 1920s and 1930s, Weeting housed a Ministry of Labour work camp...

 in 1959 while on tour with his band. His daughter is the singer Elaine Delmar

Elaine Delmar

Elaine Delmar is an English singer.She was born as Elaine Hutchinson in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Her father was the jazz trumpeter Leslie 'Jiver' Hutchinson....

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