Otto Hardwick

American jazz alto saxophonist (also clarinet and bass saxophone), nicknamed "Toby", born May 31, 1904 in Washington, D. C., died August 5, 1970 in the same city.
Hardwick is most known for playing with Fats Waller in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He returned to Ellington in 1932 and retired from music shortly after leaving Ellington in 1946.