American jazz trumpeter and arranger (born around 1900 in Norfolk, West Virginia, died 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts). John Nesbitt played with "Lillian Jones' Jazz Hounds" and Amanda Randolph, then from 1925 to 1931 was part of McKinney's Cotton Pickers. He also worked as an arranger for the orchestras of Fletcher Henderson and Luis Russell. After leaving the Cotton Pickers he worked with Zach White, Speed ​​Webb and before his death with Earle Warren.