Don Sleet

Donald "Don" Sleet (* 27. November 1938 in Fort Wayne, Indiana ; † 31 December 1986 ) was an American jazz - trumpet .

Sleet grew up as the son of a music teacher in San Diego and began working as a professional musician at the age of 15. He was tutored by Buddy Childers ; his early role models were Clifford Brown and Blue Mitchell . In the 1950s and 1960s he played in California , a. a. with his own quintet with pianist Mike Wofford and drummer John Guerin , who performed at the Beacon Inn in Del Mar and later at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach . Sleet also played with Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars , the Stan Kenton Band and Shelly Mann's All Stars , and for several years as a member of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra.

In March 1961 he had the opportunity to record an album under his own name for Jazzland Records , All Members (OJC 1949), on which tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath , pianist Wynton Kelly , bassist Ron Carter and drummer Jimmy Cobb played and all in hard bop - Idiom of the Miles Davis bands at the time . It also includes two titles written by Clifford Jordan .

Drug use limited his career in the late 1950s and 1960s. After drug therapy at Synanon , he tried a comeback in New York in the early 1970s, but this was unsuccessful. He died of lymph gland cancer in late 1986 .

Lexical entry

Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .

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SURNAME	Sleet, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sleet, Donald (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fort Wayne , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH	December 31, 1986