Jesse Drakes (22 October 1924 - 1 May 2010) was an American jazz trumpet player.
Drakes hung out at Minton's Playhouse in his youth, and attended Juilliard in the 1940s.
He played in the 1940s with Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans, Sid Catlett, J.C. Heard, Eddie Heywood, Deke Watson, and Sarah Vaughan (1947).
Alongside this Drakes played with Harry Belafonte, Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt, (1953), Louie Bellson, (1955), and Duke Ellington (1956).
He is survived by a son, Charles L. Drakes of Rockville, Maryland.