Jimmy Powell

James Theodore Powell (October 24, 1914 – February 16, 1994) was an American jazz saxophonist who played alto sax.

He played on two recording dates with Billie Holiday for Columbia. The first, in February 1940, was with a band comprising Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Carl Frye and Powell on alto saxophones, Kermit Scott (musician) on tenor sax, Sonny White on piano, Lawrence Lucie on guitar, John Willi… More