Alec Fila

American jazz and big band trumpeter. Married to singer Dolores O'Neill (1941-1949, divorced). Alec played with : Jack Teagarden, Bob Chester, Benny Goodman, Will Bradley, Glenn Miller, Ray McKinley, Elliott Lawrence and others. In high school, Fila won a four-year Guggenheim scholarship to study at Juilliard (afternoons and Saturdays) under New York Philharmonic trumpeter Max Schlossberg.