George Chisholm OBE was a Scottish trad and mainstream jazz trombonist and vocalist.
Chisholm's engineer father was a drummer and his mother a pianist. At the age of 14 he began playing piano at the Delmarnock Road Cinema in Glasgow accompanying silent films, later taking up the trombone. He performed at the Tower Ballroom and Glasgow Playhouse in the early 1930s.
In 1936 he moved from Scotland to London, where he played in dance bands led by Bert Ambrose and Teddy Joyce, and joined the resident band at the Nest Club, 12 Kingly Street in Soho, performing and occasionally recording with US jazz musicians such as Coleman Hawkins, Fats Waller and Benny Carter during their visits to London. According to the Penguin Jazz Guide, Chisholm "had few peers on the slide horn outside the US at this period". His 1930s recordings include a session with the Jazz Five - Tommy McQuater, Benny Winestone, Eddie Macauley, Tiny Winters and Dudley Barber - in October 1938. He also recorded with Danny Polo's Swing Stars during this period, and with Fats Waller at the Abbey Road Studios in 1939.