BASCOMB, WILBUR ODELL

BASCOMB, WILBUR ODELL (DUD). Jazz trumpeter (16 May 1916 in Birmingham, Alabama; 25 December 1972 in New York, New York). He came from a musical family: his father played drums in local groups; his mother played piano; one brother, Arthur, was a blues pianist; and another brother, Paul, was a jazz saxophonist. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Birmingham, Alabama, and at the Alabama State Teachers College preparatory high school in Montgomery. He began playing trumpet at...