American swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer

Tommy Turrentine

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American swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer
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Music

Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. (April 22, 1928 – May 15, 1997) was a swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer of the 1940s to 1960s. He rarely worked as a bandleader, and was known for his work as a sideman with drummer Max Roach and his younger brother, the saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.