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Roger Quincey Dickerson was born in 1898 in Paducah, Kentucky and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked in local theaters in the late 1910s. After touring with Wilson Robinson’s Bostonians in 1923, he then worked in Andrew Preer’s group at the Cotton Club in New York City, remaining in the group after Preer’s death in 1927.

From the mid to late 1920s he recorded in small groups with Harry Cooper and Jasper Taylor, with a latter session also featuring Johnny Dodds. When Cab Calloway took over the Preer band in 1930 Dickerson was still in the group, and he recorded several times under the new leader.

Leaving Calloway’s employ in 1931 he quit music but recorded again in 1949 accompanying a singer named Ray Cully. Trumpeter Roger Dickerson passed away on January 21, 1951 in Glens Falls, New York.

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