CLAYTON, WILBUR

CLAYTON, WILBUR (BUCK). Jazz trumpeter (12 November 1911 in Parsons, Kansas). His father played trumpet and tuba. He began playing piano when he was six years old, then later changed to trumpet, taking lessons from his father. He began playing professionally in the early 1930s on the West Coast. Under the patronage of Teddy Weatherford , he led bands in Shanghai, China, for two years (1934-36). After returning to the United States, he settled again in Los Angeles, California, where he...