December 24. 2003
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Jazz Trumpeter
Dies in Portland
(A P )— Jazz trum peter W ebster
Y oung, w ho played with greats
such as M iles D avis and John
C oltrane in the 1950s, but never
gained the sam e level o f p ro m i
nence him self, has died in P o rt
land. He w as 71.
Y o u n g 's career got an early
boost w hen L o u is A rm stro n g
took him as a student when he
was lO y e a rso ld .h isso n P o rtla n d
attorney D orian Young said.
As a teenager, he jam m ed with
D izzy G illespie, earning the nick
nam e "L ittle D iz” in W ashington
D .C .-area clubs for a style that
resem bled G illesp ie’s.
He broke into the m odern jazz
scene in New York City in the late
1950s, recording several album s
before returning to W ashington
to raise his fam ily.
He died Dec. 14 in Portland
from a brain tum or, Dorian Young
said. W ebster Young moved from
the W ashington to P ortland a
year ago to be near family, Dorian
Y oung said. He played gigs until
eig h t m onths before his death.
Y o u n g ’s c a re e r p eak ed in
1957, w hen he p la y e d co ro n et
w ith Jo h n C o ltra n e fo r th e a l
bum " In te rp la y fo r T w o T ru m -
p ets and T w o T e n o rs ” fo r the
P re stig e recp rd lab el.
T he session w as recorded at
Rudy Van G e ld e r’s stu d io in
H ackensack, N .J., know n as a
hotbed fo r m odern ja z z at the
tim e, said C arl W oideck, a jazz
historian at the U niversity of
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