Walter 'Foots' Thomas (b.1907) was a saxophonist and arranger in Cab Calloway's orchestra. 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... A saxophonist is a musician who plays the saxophone. ... In popular music an arrangement is a setting of a piece of music, which may have been composed by the arranger or by someone else. ... Cab Calloway, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Cab Calloway (December 25, 1907–November 18, 1994) was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader. ...

Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, he move to New York City in 1927, and played for a time with Jelly Roll Morton. He then joined the Missourians in 1929, just before Calloway took it over. Location within the state of Oklahoma County Muskogee County Mayor Wren Stratton Area    - City 100. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar). ... Morton in the 1920s Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton September 20, 1890 - July 10, 1941) was an American virtuoso pianist, bandleader and composer who some call the first true composer of jazz music. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1943 he left to work with Don Redman, and towards the end of his life tutored Jackie McLean. 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Donald Matthew Redman (July 29, 1900, Piedmont, West Virginia - November 30, 1964, New York) was an American jazz musician, arranger, and composer. ... John Lenwood (Jackie) McLean (born May 17, 1932) is an American jazz alto saxophonist and educator, born in New York City. ...

References

Schuller, Gunther. The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 (1991), Oxford Paperbacks ISBN10: 0-19-507140-9