Pete Daily (May 5, 1911 – August 23, 1986) was an American dixieland jazz cornetist and valve trombonist.
Born Thaman Pierce Daily in Portland, Indiana, he started his career in 1930, playing with various bands in and around Chicago. In 1942, he moved to the West Coast and, after service in World War II, formed Pete Daily and his Chicagoans. The Chicagoans also recorded as Dixie by Daily, and Pete Daily's Dixieland Band, for the Capitol, Jump, and Decca labels.... meer