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.