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Rex Stewart

Rex William Stewart Jr., born on February 22, 1907, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was an American jazz cornetist. He began his career playing piano and violin before focusing on the cornet. Stewart started professionally with the Ragtime Clowns led by Ollie Blackwell and later played with bands including those led by Willie Lewis, Elmer Snowden, Horace Henderson, Fletcher Henderson, Fess Williams, and McKinney's Cotton Pickers. In 1934, he joined Duke Ellington’s orchestra, co-writing songs like "Boy Meets Horn" and "Morning Glory". Stewart left Ellington in 1945 to lead smaller...