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Charlie Shavers

Jazz trumpeter

Died when: 53 years 339 days (647 months)
Star Sign: Leo

 

Charlie Shavers

Charles James Shavers (August 3, 1920 – July 8, 1971) was an American jazz trumpeter who played with Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, Midge Williams, Tommy Dorsey, and Billie Holiday.

He was also an arranger and composer, and one of his compositions, "Undecided", is a jazz standard.


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