Gerald Wilson, American trumpet player and composer (born 1918)

Gerald Wilson

American jazz trumpetist (1918–2014)

Gerald Stanley Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. He arranged music for Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie,…