Description
Gerald Stanley Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer/arranger, and educator, who was based in Los Angeles, California, since the early 1940s. In addition to being a band leader, Wilson wrote arrangements for many other prominent artists including Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson.
Born
September 4th, 1918 in Shelby / Died: Sep 8th, 2014 - aged 96
Last Changes
2018/12/04
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2014/09/09
The celebrity has been marked as passed away
2011/03/29
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