| LC control no. | no2010190018 |
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| Personal name heading | Wright, Lamar, 1905-1973 |
| Variant(s) | Wright, Lammar, 1905-1973 Wright, Lamarr, 1905-1973 |
| Found in | Missourians. Harlem in the twenties. vol. 1, 195-: label (Lamar Wright, trumpet) OCLC, Nov. 22, 2010 (hdgs.: Wright, Lamar, 1905-1973, Wright, Lammar, 1905-1973, Wright, Lamarr, 1905-1973; usage: Lamar Wright, Lammar Wright, Lamarr Wright) Oxford Music Online; Sept. 1, 2010 (Lammar Wright (Sr.); b. June 20, 1905, Texarkana, Tex.; d. April 13, 1973, N.Y.; b. date has been published as 1907, but social security gives 1905; American trumpeter; grew up in Kansas City; member of Bennie Moten's band, the Missourians/Cab Calloway's Orchestra; occas. led his own band; teacher and studio musician in 1950s-1960s; recorded with Arnett Cobb, Count Basie, Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, and George Shearing's big band; appeared in The Night They Raided Minsky's, 1968; father of Lammar/Lamar Wright (Jr.), also trumpeter, b. Sept. 26, 1924; d. July 8, 1983) |
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