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Ray Wetzel
Ray Wetzel is credited on 510 releases across 134 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2017 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
510
Credits
134
Albums
7
Decades active
23
In collections
Biography
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American jazz trumpeter, born September 22, 1924 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, died August 17, 1951 in Sedgwick, Colorado ( killed in a car crash).
Worked with Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Vido Musso, Neal Hefti, Charlie Barnet, Maynard Ferguson,Doc Severinsen, Rolf Ericson and others.
Married Bonnie Wetzel in 1949.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
510 releases · 134 albums · active 1950–2017
- Performance · 693
- Other credits · 65
Studios: The Hollywood Palladium · Carnegie Hall · Widder-Bar, Zürich · Philharmonic Auditorium
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Verve Years (1948-50)
1976
Charlie Parker With Strings
1955
Kenton In Hi Fi
1956
The Stereo Disc
1958
City Of Glass
1995
The Essential Charlie Parker
1992
Hooked On Swing, The Album
1982
Light And Lovely
1978
This Is Tommy Dorsey Vol. 2
1972
Artistry In Rhythm
1946
Woody Herman
1984
Woody Herman
1979
The Thundering Herds
1966
Woodchopper's Ball
1955
Frequent collaborators
- Stan Kenton
- Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
- Various
- Woody Herman
- Charlie Parker
- Glen Gray And The Casa Loma Orchestra
- Ted Heath And His Music
- Charlie Barnet And His Orchestra
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