Wendell Culley

American jazz trumpeter (also cornet, flugelhorn), born January 8, 1906 in Worcester, Massachusetts, died May 8, 1983 in Los Angeles, California. Culley began 1929 playing in Joe Steele And His Orchestra. He played locally in Boston, then moved to New York City in 1931, where he found early work playing with Horace Henderson and Cab Calloway.