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American musician

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Don Sleet was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA)November 1938 and got piano lessons from his father, who was the director of the San Diego School of Music. Later he took up the trumpet and when he was 18 years old he became a trumpet player in the San Diego Symphony (his father was the director), the Diego State College Jazz Band and the Terry Gibbs Big Band. He was invited to become a member of the Lighthouse All-Stars, the leading band for westcoast musicians. (3) <a href="https://www.last.fm/m

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Instance of
human
Given name
Don
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Fort Wayne
Place of death
Hollywood
Occupation
musician
Genre
jazz
Instrument
trumpet
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date of birth
1938-11-27
date of death
1986-12-31
manner of death
natural causes
cause of death
lymphoma
start of work period
1954-00-00
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