Benjamin Clarence "Bull Moose" Jackson (April 22 1919 ? July 31 1989[LINK: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=BULLMOOSE|JACKSON&sql=11:difixq95ldke~T1] All Music Guide biography - accessed January 2008) was an American blues and rhythm and blues singer and saxophonist, who was most successful in the late 1940s. Career Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he learned to play the saxophone and started his first band, The Harlem Hotshots, while he was still in high school. In 1943 he was recruited as a saxophonist by bandleader Lucky Millinder, and the musicians in Millinder's band gave him the nickname "Bull Moose" for his appearance. He began singing when required to stand in for Wynonie Harris at a show in Texas. Millinder encouraged Jackson to sign a solo contract with Syd Nathan of King Records to play rhythm and blues.