Trumpet, saxophone.
Waldron left San Francisco at age 16 for Seattle, in 1907, and became the go-to teacher for two generations of Seattle jazz musicians at his studio at 1242 South Jackson Street and later from his home on Fifteenth Avenue South. He was a Northwest jazz pioneer, playing in Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver, B.C., where he rubbed elbows with Jelly Roll Morton and played in the Whang Doodle Orchestra, which gave what was probably the first documented jazz performance in Seattle, in 1912, at the Dumas Club, on Fifth Avenue South and South Jackson Street. Waldron published a book of his compositions, “Syncopated Classic,” in 1924, and performed in the Odean Jazz Orchestra, one of the only black bands welcomed to Seattle’s downtown, in the 1920s. During that decade, Waldron mentored Jimmy and Wayne Adams, Floyd Turnham and Evelyn Bundy and in the ’40s, Quincy Jones and Buddy Catlett, among others.
https://gregrubymusic.com/projects/frank-d-waldron-project/ Jackson Street After Hours; Frank Waldron: Seattle’s Syncopated Classic (latter two, print only). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_D._Waldron