George Chisholm OBE (29 March 1915 – 6 December 1997) was a Scottish trad and mainstream jazz trombonist and vocalist.
At the age of 14 he began playing piano at the Delmarnock Road Cinema in Glasgow accompanying silent films, later taking up the trombone.
[1] In 1936 he moved from Scotland to London, where he played in dance bands led by Bert Ambrose and Teddy Joyce, and joined the resident band at the Nest Club, 12 Kingly Street in Soho,[2] performing and occasionally recording with US jazz musicians such as Coleman Hawkins, Fats Waller and Benny Carter during their visits to London.
[6][7] In 1940, during the Second World War, Chisholm signed on with the Royal Air Force and joined the RAF Dance Orchestra (known popularly as the Squadronaires),[2] remaining in the band until 1950, long after he was demobbed.
[6] He joined The Black and White Minstrel Show in 1961 for a decade, and appeared in the films The Mouse on the Moon (1963), The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965) and Superman III (1983).