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Bobby Martin
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Buck Clayton
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Louis Metcalf
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Art Farmer
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American musician
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American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1929-1988)
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Willie Cook
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Johnny Claes
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Belgian racing driver
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Edgar Battle
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Bunk Johnson
Bunk Johnson
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Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley
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Jimmy Owens
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Woody Shaw
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Red Allen
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Bunny Berigan
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Louis Armstrong
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Bill Dixon
Bill Dixon
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Clark Terry
Clark Terry
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Cootie Williams
Cootie Williams
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Hot Lips Page
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
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Pepper Adams
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Dizzy Gillespie
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Steve Berrios
Steve Berrios
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Harold Mabern
Harold Mabern
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Charles Davis
Charles Davis
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Don Cherry
Don Cherry
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Big Boy Goudie
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Richard Williams
Richard Williams
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King Oliver
King Oliver
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Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge
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Joe Magnarelli
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Mathias Eick
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Wallace Jones
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Maynard Ferguson
Maynard Ferguson
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Mezz Mezzrow
Mezz Mezzrow
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Cat Anderson
Cat Anderson
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Luis Russell
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Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
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Russell Procope
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Doc Cheatham
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Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly
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Mal Waldron
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Neal Hefti
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Carlos "Patato" Valdes
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J. J. Johnson
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Miles Davis
Miles Davis
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Nat Gonella
Nat Gonella
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Steven Bernstein
Steven Bernstein
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June Cole
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Chico O'Farrill
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Dave Douglas
Dave Douglas
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Walter Thomas
Walter Thomas
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Willie Love
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Jack Butler
American musician

Jack Butler

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American musician
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Music

Jacques Butler (sometimes Jack Butler) (April 29, 1909 – 2003) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist.

Butler was raised in Washington, DC, where he picked up trumpet in his late teens. He played with Cliff Jackson and Horace Henderson in New York City, then joined Marion Hardy's Alabamians in 1931-32. He led his own ensemble in 1934-1935 and made recordings with Willie Bryant before relocating to Europe in 1936. There he played for several years with Willie Lewis, as well as with Frank "Big Boy" Goudie and with his own bands. In 1940 he was in New York again, where he played with Mercer Ellington, Art Hodes, Mezz Mezzrow, and Bingie Madison. After a brief stay in Toronto he moved back to Europe in 1950, remaining there until 1968 as a regular at the La Cigale club in Paris. In the 1970s he worked often in New York, as a sideman with Clyde Bernhardt among others.