Jerry "Buck" Jerome (June 19, 1912 – November 17, 2001)[1] was an American jazz and big band musician, a tenor saxophonist.

Jerome was born in Brooklyn, New York, and began playing the saxophone in high school in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Jerome was part of a national tour in 1936 with bandleader Harry Reser and his Clicquot Club Eskimos.

While with Shaw he appeared in the 1940 film, Second Chorus, starring Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith.

By the end of the 1940s, Jerome became involved in broadcasting, variously working as a conductor, composer, arranger and musical director.