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This Day in History: 2008-06-03

Philip Cansler, American trumpeter, taught at the University of Portland for 28 years, researched 20th-c. music for trumpet and organ, died in Scappoose, Oregon.

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This Day In Trumpet History

1910 Otis Johnson, American jazz trumpeter, played in many big bands, member of the Army National Guard, born in New York, New York.

1911 Roy Eldridge, great American jazz trumpeter, member of the Fletcher Henderson orchestra, the Gene Krupa band, Artie Shaw, and collaborator with Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Oscar Peterson, influence on Dizzy Gillespie, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1922 Richard Mölder, Estonian trumpeter, principal of the Estonian Philharmonic, born in Saaremaa Island, Estonia.

1922 John Ware, American trumpeter, played in the Army Band program in WWII, principal in the Buffalo Philharmonic, principal of the Dallas Symphony, third/assistant principal (later associate principal and later co-principal) in the New York Philharmonic, teacher at Mannes and the Manhattan School of Music, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

1946 Fancis Schmidhäusler, Swiss trumpeter, principal with the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, principal of the St. Gall Symphony Orchestra, principal of the Berne Symphony Orchestra, teacher at the Fribourg Conservatory, twin brother to René, also a trumpeter in the Berne Symphony, born in Fribourg, Switzerland.

1957 Steven Pride, American trumpeter, second trumpet in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, member of the Queen City Brass, principal cornet of the Armco Band (Frank Simon Band), born in Maryville, Missouri.

1994 Ernistine ("Tiny") Davis, American jazz trumpeter, member of all-female band, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, then member of her own all-female jazz sextet, the Hell Divers, died in Chicago, Illinois.

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