George Temple

George Temple – Trumpet player. George Temple played the trumpet with Indy’s all-black Pickaninny Band, which was a military-type brass band that traveled with a musical entitled In Old Kentucky. Temple traveled to Atlantic City with the troupe of In Old Kentucky in 1913. Later, he played lead trumpet for many years with the New York and Chicago based Fess Williams and his Royal Serenaders. In the late 1920s, Temple played on recordings with Fess Williams and with Jelly James and his Fewsicians (two sides with Gennett in New York, 1927).