Jimmy Maxwell (January 9, 1917[1] – July 20, 2002)[2] was an American swing jazz trumpeter.
He played with Gil Evans (1933–34), Jimmy Dorsey (1936), Maxine Sullivan, and Skinnay Ennis before joining Benny Goodman's band from 1939 to 1943.
In addition, he worked as a sideman for, among others, Woody Herman (1958), Count Basie, Duke Ellington (1973), Oliver Nelson, Gerry Mulligan, Maynard Ferguson, Quincy Jones (1964), the New York Jazz Repertory Company, and Chuck Israels's National Jazz Ensemble.
[1] Later in life Maxwell worked with Dixieland jazz and swing ensembles such as Dick Sudhalter's New California Ramblers.
With Cannonball Adderley With Manny Albam With Ruth Brown With Al Cohn With Bobby Hackett With J. J. Johnson With Quincy Jones With Carmen McRae With Oliver Nelson With Charlie Parker With Nelson Riddle With Clark Terry