Jimmy Forrest，Afro-American jazz musician and composer. A hard-driving, modern-intoned tenor saxophonist, he began with the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra and then worked during the mid- and late 1930's with Fate Marable and Dewey Jackson in the St. Louis area. In 1940, he joined Jay McShann in Kansas City, playing in the same section of the band as Charlie Parker.