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Charlie Shavers - Definition

Charlie James Shavers (August 3, 1917 to July 8, 1971)was a swing era jazz trumpet player who played at one time or another with Dizzy Gillespie , Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmy Noone, Sidney Bechet and Billie Holiday.

Born in New York he originally took up the piano and banjo before switching to trumpet.

Bands of which he was a member include:-

Charlie Shavers died from throat cancer in New York in 1971 at the age of 53.

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