Dave Wilkins was a 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 from Barbados

Barbados

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Wilkins first played in Salvation Army

Salvation Army

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 bands in his home country. In 1937 he moved to London

London

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, where he worked with Ken "Snakehips" Johnson's West Indian Swing Band among others. He recorded with Una Mae Carlisle

Una Mae Carlisle

Una Mae Carlisle was an American jazz singer, pianist, and songwriter.Fats Waller discovered Carlisle when she was still in her teens, while she worked as a local Cincinnati performer live and on radio...

 and Fats Waller

Fats Waller

Fats Waller , born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer...

 in 1938, and continued to work with Johnson until 1941. Following this he played with English jazz musicians such as Ted Heath, Harry Parry

Harry Parry

Harry Owen Parry was a Welsh jazz clarinetist and bandleader.Parry was born in Bangor, Wales. He played cornet, tenor horn, flugelhorn, drums, and violin as a child, and began on clarinet and saxophone in 1927. After moving to London in 1932, he played with several dance bands, including Percival...

, Joe Daniels

Joe Daniels

Joe Daniels is an American rock drummer best known as the ex-drummer for Local H.-Local H:In 1987, while attending high school in Zion, IL Daniels and Scott Lucas, eventually formed Local H in 1990. Local H was originally a three-piece band which consisted Joe Daniels on drums, Scott Lucas on...

 and Cab Kaye

Cab Kaye

Nii-lante Augustus Kwamlah Quaye, better known as Cab Kaye was an English-Ghanaian-Dutch jazz musician, bandleader, entertainer, drummer, guitarist, pianist, songwriter and singer. His singing was influenced by Billie Holiday and he often accompanied himself on piano with a graceful, rhythmic style...

. He quit playing in the 1970s and died in 1990.