Erskine Hawkins, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1993)

Erskine Hawkins

American trumpeter and big band leader (1914–1993)

Erskine Ramsay Hawkins was an American trumpeter and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama, dubbed "The 20th Century Gabriel". He is best remembered for composing the jazz standard "Tuxedo Junction" (1939) with saxophonist and arranger Bill Johnson. The song became a hit…