Ed Cuffee

Edward Emerson Cuffee (June 7, 1902 – January 3, 1959) was an American jazz trombonist.

Ed Cuffee
Birth name	Edward Emerson Cuffee
Born	June 7, 1902 Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
Died	January 3, 1959 (aged 57) New York City, New York, U.S.
Genres	Jazz
Instruments	Trombone

Career

Cuffee moved to New York in the 1920s, where he recorded with Clarence Williams (1927–29) and played with Bingie Madison. He played in McKinney's Cotton Pickers (1929–34) and in Fletcher Henderson's band (1935–38), then with Leon Abbey (1940 and subsequently), Count Basie (1941), Chris Columbus (1944), and Bunk Johnson (1947). Cuffee quit playing professionally after the late 1940s. Cuffee has sometimes been incorrectly referred to as Cuffee Davidson because of erroneous early sources.

References

• "Ed Cuffee". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

Further reading

• John Chilton, Who's Who of Jazz.