| LC control no. | no 00087000 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wood, Booty, 1919-1987 |
| Variant(s) | Wood, Bootie, 1919-1987 Wood, Mitchell W., 1919-1987 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1919-12-27 |
| Death date | 1987-06-10 |
| Place of birth | Dayton (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Dayton (Ohio) |
| Field of activity | Jazz |
| Profession or occupation | Trombonists |
| Found in | Ellington, D. New Orleans suite [SR] 198-?: container (Booty Wood, trombone) Feather, L. Biog. ency. of jazz, 1999 (Wood, Booty (Mitchell Jr.); b. Dec. 27, 1919, Weedowee, Ala., d. June 10, 1987, Dayton, Ohio; trombone) New Grove dict. of jazz (Wood, Booty (Bootie, Mitchell W.); b. Dec. 27, 1919, Dayton, Ohio, d. June 10, 1987, Dayton, Ohio; trombonist) OCLC database, Oct. 24, 2000 (hdgs.: Wood, Booty; Wood, Mitchell, 1919-1987) Chelsea Bridge, 1998: label (Booty Wood) container (Michael "Booty" Wood) Wikipedia, December 18, 209 (Booty Wood; Mitchell W. Wood, better known as Booty Wood (December 27, 1919, Dayton, Ohio - June 10, 1987, Dayton) was an American jazz trombonist; Wood played professionally on trombone from the late 1930s; he worked with Tiny Bradshaw and Lionel Hampton in the 1940s before joining the Navy during World War II; while there he played in a band with Clark Terry, Willie Smith, and Gerald Wilson; after his service ended he returned to play with Hampton, then worked with Arnett Cobb (1947-1948), Erskine Hawkins (1948-1950), and Count Basie (1951); he spent a few years outside music, then played with Duke Ellington in 1959-1960 and again in 1963; he returned once more early in the 1970s; he again played with the Count Basie Orchestra from 1979 into the middle of the following decade) |
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