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This Day in History: 1954-02-05

Bert Truax, American trumpeter and composer, member of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, founder of the Bert Truax School of Trumpet, teacher at Texas A&M, born in San Rafael, California.

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This Day In Trumpet History

1910 Adolf Rosner, German trumpeter and bandleader, played in the Weintraub Syncopators (1930-3), as Jew, fled Germany during WWII, wound up in the Soviet Union, forming a band, the Bierlorussian State Jazz Orchestra, after WWII survived Siberian Gulag, moved to East Berlin in 1973, born in Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany.

1914 Shorty Baker, American jazz trumpeter, played with Erskine Tate, Eddie Johnson, Don Redman, Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson, Andy Kirk and Mary Lou Williams (whom he married in 1940), born in St. Louis, Missouri.

1914 Ziggy Elman, American jazz trumpeter, played with Benny Goodman, known for his strength and explosiveness on trumpet, played with Lionel Hampton, Joe Venuti and Tommy Dorsey, appeared in several films, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1987 Carmine Caruso, American teacher who attracted students of all jazz instruments, known for his "long-setting" method, died on this day.

1989 Donald Reinhardt, American trombonist and brass pedagogue, author of the famous Pivot System fo Trumpet and The Augmented Encyclopedia of the Pivot System, died on this day.

2002 Glenn Stuart, American trumpeter, lead with Don Ellis, Tony Pastor, Jimmy Dorsey and Stan Kenton, studio musician, shot his estranged wife and himself on this day in Laguna Beach, California.

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