Cootie Williams, 77, a jazz trumpeter, was the last surviving member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra that played the Cotton Club in Harlem during the 1920s. Playing professionally for more than 50 ...

One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Charles M. “Cootie” Williams, has died at his home in Long Island, N.Y. He was 77. Williams spent a total of more than 24 years, in three periods ...

Nearly a third of this splendid album by the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra, recorded in March 1999 at Copenhagen's JazzHouse, is devoted to "The Governor," conductor Niels Jørgen Steen's enterprising ...

A part for an untitled piece is also noted on the verso of this part for unidentified treble instrument for Concerto for Cootie. Handwriting and other details have been reported based on the notes of ...

Trombone part for Tough scufflin is also noted on the bottom of the trombone part for Concerto for Cootie. Handwriting and other details have been reported based on the notes of David Berger, Andrew ...