LISTON, MELBA DORETTA

LISTON, MELBA DORETTA. Jazz trombonist (13 January 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri). Her family moved to Los Angeles, California, when she was a child. She obtained her musical education in that city's public schools and through private study. She began her professional career at the age of sixteen, playing in the pit orchestra of a local theater (1942-44). During the next decade she played with various groups or individuals, including William (Count) Basie , John Birks (Dizzy) Gillespie...