Guy Kelly (November 22, 1906 – February 24, 1940) was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.
[1] Guy Edgar Kelly was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana on November 22, 1906.
[1] By 1931 Kelly had moved to Chicago where he was working with Cassino Simpson and Erskine Tate.
Other Chicago musicians he worked with in the 1930s included banjoist Ed Carry (1932), Dave Peyton (1934), Tiny Parham (1934), Carroll Dickerson (1934, 1937–1938), Jimmie Noone (1935-1936), and Albert Ammons (1935-1936, 1939 and 1940s).
[1] Kelly appears on the Noone classic "The Blues Jumped a Rabbit", recorded Chicago January 15, 1936.