Melvin Moore (2)

Trumpet player and vocalist, born June 15, 1923, in Chicago. Played with Jimmie Lunceford 1942-1945, Lucky Millinder 1947, briefly with Duke Ellington 1948, 1950. After playing with rhythm and blues bands on he West Coast, he performed with Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1964. Later he recorded with Gil Fuller and Gerald Wilson.