Herman Autrey

HERMAN AUTREY d1980. American jazz trumpeter. He became well known through Fats Waller who hired him in 1934 after signing a contract with Victor Records. He played with the drummer Harry Dial / guitarist Al Casey and reedist Gene Sedric. He went on to record extensively with Waller / Fletcher Henderson and Claude Hopkins. He worked as a sideman into the 1940s with Stuff Smith / Sammy Price and Una Mae Carlisle. Early in the 1950s he was hurt in a car crash, sidelining his career for one year