Dewey Jackson (June 21, 1900 – January 1, 1994) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
In 1926, he performed with his St. Louis Charleston Peacock Band on the Streckfus Steamboat Lines' steamer Capitol.
[2] He continued to be a regular performer on riverboats into the early 1940s, heading his groups and working as a sideman for Creath and Fate Marable.
He was briefly away from boats in 1926 when he played for four months with Andrew Preer at the Cotton Club in New York City.
Among his sidemen were Pops Foster, Willie Humphrey, Don Stovall, Morris White, Albert Snaer, William Thornton Blue, and Clark Terry.