Caughey Roberts (August 25, 1912 – December 15, 1990) was an American jazz alto sax player, best known for his time in the Count Basie Orchestra in the 1930s.
During the early-1930s, he was a music band teacher at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles.
[2] He later joined Buck Clayton’s 14-piece jazz ensemble (known as the Harlem Gentlemen).
[3] They traveled by cruise liner to Shanghai, China where they performed an extended engagement at the elegant Canidrome Ballroom.
[7] In later years he played in the traditional jazz band at Disneyland's New Orleans Square with Teddy Buckner and others.