Boots Ward

Boots Ward was an American jazz drummer and jazz club owner. and, occasionally Wendell Culley on trumpet. and Freddie Bates on tenor sax, who would be joined, in 1929, by Howie Jefferson.

Ward also ran the Nile Cafe, a jazz venue on Summer Street in Worcester. Boots Ward's Nile Cafe is believed to have been the only jazz venue with an African American owner at the time.