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- Charlie_Shavers abstract "Charles James Shavers (August 3, 1920 – July 8, 1971), known as Charlie Shavers, was an American swing era jazz trumpet player who played at one time or another with Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, Midge Williams and Billie Holiday. He was also an arranger and composer, and one of his compositions, \"Undecided\", is a jazz standard.Charlie Shavers' father (a distant relative of Fats Navarro) was from the prominent Shavers family of Key West, Florida, and Charlie was a cousin of heavyweight boxer Earnie Shavers. Born in New York City, he originally took up the piano and banjo before switching to trumpet. In the mid-thirties, he performed with Tiny Bradshaw and Lucky Millinder. In 1935 he played in the trumpet section, alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Carl (Bama) Warwick in Frankie Fairfax's Campus Club Orchestra. In 1936 he joined John Kirby's Sextet as trumpet soloist and arranger (he was only 16 but gave his birthdate as 1917 in order to avoid child labor laws - many biographies still list this date). His arrangements and solos with this band contributed greatly towards making it one of the most commercially successful and widely imitated bands of its day. In 1937 he was performing with Midge Williams and her Jazz Jesters. In 1944 he began playing sessions in Raymond Scott's CBS staff orchestra. In 1945 he left John Kirby's band to join Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra, with whom he toured and recorded, off and on, until 1953. During this time he continued to play sessions at CBS, played with the Metronome All-Stars, and made a number of recordings as trumpet soloist with Billie Holiday. From 1953 to 1954 he worked with Benny Goodman, and toured Europe with Norman Granz's popular Jazz at the Philharmonic series, where he was always a crowd favorite. He went on to form his own band with Terry Gibbs and Louie Bellson.Charlie Shavers died from throat cancer in New York in 1971 at the age of 50. His friend Louis Armstrong died while Shavers was on his deathbed, and his last request was that his trumpet mouthpiece be buried with Armstrong in his coffin.".
- Charlie_Shavers background "non_vocal_instrumentalist".
- Charlie_Shavers birthDate "1920-08-03".
- Charlie_Shavers birthPlace New_York.
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- Charlie_Shavers birthPlace United_States.
- Charlie_Shavers deathDate "1971-07-08".
- Charlie_Shavers deathPlace New_York.
- Charlie_Shavers deathPlace New_York_City.
- Charlie_Shavers deathPlace United_States.
- Charlie_Shavers genre Jazz.
- Charlie_Shavers instrument Trumpet.
- Charlie_Shavers thumbnail Charlie_Shavers,_National_Studio,_May_1947_(Gottlieb_07761).jpg?width=300.
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- Charlie_Shavers wikiPageWikiLinkText "Charles Shavers".
- Charlie_Shavers wikiPageWikiLinkText "Charlie Shavers".
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- Charlie_Shavers background "non_vocal_instrumentalist".
- Charlie_Shavers birthDate "1920-08-03".
- Charlie_Shavers birthName "Charles James Shavers".
- Charlie_Shavers birthPlace New_York.
- Charlie_Shavers birthPlace New_York_City.
- Charlie_Shavers birthPlace United_States.
- Charlie_Shavers caption "Photography by William P. Gottlieb.".
- Charlie_Shavers caption "Shavers, National Studios, May 1947.".
- Charlie_Shavers deathDate "1971-07-08".
- Charlie_Shavers deathPlace "New York City, New York, United States".
- Charlie_Shavers genre Jazz.
- Charlie_Shavers instrument Trumpet.
- Charlie_Shavers name "Charlie Shavers".
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- Charlie_Shavers subject Category:1917_births.
- Charlie_Shavers subject Category:1971_deaths.
- Charlie_Shavers subject Category:20th-century_American_musicians.
- Charlie_Shavers subject Category:American_jazz_trumpeters.
- Charlie_Shavers subject Category:Cancer_deaths_in_New_York.
- Charlie_Shavers subject Category:Deaths_from_throat_cancer.
- Charlie_Shavers hypernym Player.
- Charlie_Shavers type Agent.
- Charlie_Shavers type Artist.
- Charlie_Shavers type Athlete.