Biography
Charlie Gaines
Real name: Charles H. Gaines
American jazz trumpeter, nicknamed "Devil", born August 8, 1900 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died November 23, 1986 in Germantown, Pennsylvania.Gaines played with (among others) Wilburn Sweatman, Sam Wooding, Earl Walton, Leroy Smith, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Clarence Williams, The Hot Chocolates.