Leslie George "Jiver" Hutchinson (6 March 1906 – 22 November 1959)[1] was a Jamaican jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
[1] In 1936, Hutchinson played in Leslie Thompson's Emperors of Jazz and in 1938 with Ken "Snakehips" Johnson, then joined Geraldo's band in 1939.
[1] Hutchinson led his own ensemble from 1944 to 1950, featuring many of the musicians from Thompson's band.
He returned to play with Geraldo after the group's dissolution, and recorded with pianist Mary Lou Williams in 1952.
[1] Hutchinson was killed in a car crash in Weeting, Norfolk, in 1959 aged 53, while on tour with his band.