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This Day in History: 1949-06-30

Barrie Hall, American jazz trumpeter, member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, born in Mansfield, Louisiana.

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This Day In Trumpet History

1928 Ronald Simmonds, Canadian jazz trumpeter, grew up in Englands, played in Tommy Sampson's orchestra from age 19, played in several other big bands including Jack Parnell's, played pit orchestra of West Side Story for thee years, played for German Radio, composed and arranged music, switched to piano when lip was paralyzed in dental procedure, born in Winnipeg, Canada.

1949 Hale A. VanderCook, American cornetist, played in several local bands, at 27 became conductor of the J.H. LaPearl Circus Band, took lessons from A.F. Weldon in Chicago, purchased Weldon's home, school and studios to open the VanderCook Cornet School which was so successful that he expanded and hired more teachers and renamed to VanderCook School of Music and then VanderCook College of Music, now located on Federal Street in Chicago, composed many educational solos, died in Allegen, Michigan.

1966 Armando Cedillo, Mexican trumpeter, principal of the University Phil Orch in Mexico City and the Mexico Phil Orch (1994-98), recorded several solo CDs, toured with Luis Miguel, member of the Mexico Trumpet Ensemble, teaches at the Escuela de México Vida y Movimiento, founder and organizer of the Rafael Méndez International Trumpet Festival, born in Mexico City, Mexico.

1966 Joey Tartell, American trumpeter, member of US Army Jazz Ambassadors (1988-92), toured with Maynard Ferguson's band, played with the Woody Herman band, Glenn Miller Orch, Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orch, guest lead with many symphony orchestras, backed many pop stars, prof at St. Joseph's College, then prof at Indiana University, member of Tromba Mundi, born in Amarillo, Texas.

1969 Roy Hargrove, American trumpeter, one of the most important jazz musicians from the 1980s to 2010s, played European tour with Frank Morgan while in high school, after high school played with several bands professionally, attended Berklee College of Music, then transferred to NYC's New School to play club dates more frequently, played Carnegie Hall in 1994, commissioned for The Love Suite: In Mahogany (1993) by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orch, played with countless famous jazz musicians, led his own successful big band and a quintet called RH Factor, recorded many albums, won two Grammys, born in Waco, Texas.

1973 Fay Hanson, American cornetist, studied with H.L. Clarke, became brass teaching specialist and assistant band director at Weber State College, known as an exceptional teacher, especially of beginners, wrote book, Brass Playing: Mechanism and Technic, died in Ogden, Utah.

1984 Ernest Hall, British trumpeter, played solo cornet at the Liverpool Empire Theatre (1897), Hippodrome Theatre (1911 as solo cornet), served in WWI, played in Thomas Beecham Opera Company, played BB2 for a Promenade Concert, joined London Symph Orch as principal, principal of BBC Symph Orch, English premiere of Haydn's Concerto, died on this day.

1998 Emery ("Fats") Thompson (aka Umar Uthman Sharif), American jazz trumpeter, at 14 played with the Music Masters (1941), Jimmy Lunceford's band, left college to join Snookum Russell's Band in Oklahoma City, played with Louis Armstrong (1944-46), played with many other bands, stopped playing trumpet to teach Islam, born in Norcross, Georgia.

2000 Frank Johnson, Australian jazz trumpeter, formed his own Frank Johnson's Fabulous Dixielanders (1947-56), led other trad jazz groups (1956-1970s), died in Noosa Heads, Australia.

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