Shirley Clay

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Shirley Clay

cor, tr, 1902-1951 US
Musician of Jazz

Shirley Clay (died February 7, 1951) was an American jazz trumpeter.Clay got his early start in St. Louis, Missouri while a teenager, about 1920. He toured with John Williams's Synco Jazzers early in the decade and then moved to Chicago, where he recorded with Louis Armstrong in 1927 and worked with Carroll Dickerson and Clifford King.

Instruments

Cornet
Trumpet

Genres

Jazz
Pop
Soundtrack

Plays With

Benny Goodman And His Orchestra

Dixie Rhythm Kings

Don Redman And His Orchestra

Preston Jackson's Uptown Band

Richard Jones And His Jazz Wizards

Starks Hot Five

Wallie Coulter And His Band

Band Members

External Links

Wikipedia

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Discogs

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Acknowledgements

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