Whetsol, Arthur

LC control no.	n 80124237
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Whetsol, Arthur *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Whetsol, Artie Schiefe, Arthur Parker Whetsel, Arthur
Located	Washington (D.C.)
Birth date	1905
Death date	1940-01-05
Place of birth	Punta Gorda (Fla.)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Affiliation	Armstrong High School (Washington, D.C.) Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.) White Brothers Washingtonians (Musical group) Duke Ellington Orchestra
Profession or occupation	Jazz musicians Trumpet players Cornet players
Found in	Ellington, D. Duke Ellington's band shorts [SR] p1978 (a.e.) container (Arthur Whetsol; jazz trumpeter) Grove music online, Sept. 19, 2008 (Whetsol, Artie (Arthur; Schiefe, Arthur Parker); b. 1905, Punta Gorda, FL, d. Jan. 5, 1940, New York; American trumpeter) African American National Biography, accessed April 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Whetsol, Artie; Arthur Parker Whetsol; Arthur Parker Schiefe; jazz musician, trumpeter; born 1905 in Punta Gorda, Florida, United States; attended Armstrong High School, Washington DC; played in the Dunbar High School orchestra, Washington DC; performed with Ellington, pianist Claude Hopkins, and White Brothers (1920); joined the Washingtonians led by banjoist Elmer Snowden (1923); rejoined the Ellington orchestra (1928-1936) as its lead trumpeter and a soloist; died 05 January 1940 in New York, United States) Classic James P. Johnson sessions (1921-1943), 2015: booklet, page 10 (Arthur Whetsel; "stalwart Ellington cornet player") Grove music online, January 26, 2017 (entry for Artie Whetsol; but the entry for Duke Ellington also mentions him as Arthur Whetsel: "In 1917 [Ellington] founded his first band, The Duke's Colored Syncopators, including Arthur Whetsel (trumpet)")