Jap Allen

Jasper "Jap" Allen was an American jazz musician and bandleader. He played tuba, sousaphone and bass violin. Other band members included Ed Lewis,

Shortly thereafter, Jap Allen's Cotton Pickers, still with Webster, Hart, and Keys, now had Jim "Daddy" Walker on guitar, and Slim Moore on trombone.

In 1930, Jap Allen's Cotton Club Orchestra featured Joe Keyes, Ben Webster, Jim "Big Daddy" Walker, Clyde Hart, Slim Moore, Raymond Howell on drums, Eddie "Orange" White, Al Denny, O.C. Wynne, Booker Pittman, Durwood "Dee" Stewart.

A later line-up, Jasper Allen's Southern Troubadours, were pitted against Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy