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Article: Jazz West Coast

The Jazz West Coast Style of Music: An Introduction

by Steven Cerra
May 23, 2025

I know it's hard to imagine with today's governmental overreach telling people what cars to drive, what bathrooms to use, and the highest personal, property and commercial taxes of any state in the nation, but California in the 1950s was a place of opportunities and possibilities. It's why my dad relocated the family from ...

About Don Sleet

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Musician

Don Sleet

Born: November 27, 1938

Donald Clayborn Sleet was an American jazz trumpeter. He was a member of Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars and Lenny McBrowne and the Four Souls. Widely considered a gifted musician, compared to the likes of Art Farmer and Kenny Dorham, Sleet had a short career as a result of his drug abuse, recording only one album as a leader. Sleet was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on November 27, 1938. His father was a music teacher at school from whom he began to take lessons at age nine.[2] His family moved to San Diego, California, when he was ten years old. There he took piano lessons for four years before taking up the trumpet

Album

Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars

By Shelly Manne

Label: Original Jazz Classics
Released: 1953
Track listing: Swing Shift; Out Of Somewhere; Big Girl; Viva Zapata! No. 1; Mambo Los Feliz; Jazz Invention; Love Letters; Witch Doctor;