December 24. 2003 Page A6 Focus 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 O regon School o f M usic. AFFORDABLE Ti V T T lock Trish Egan (left) and Shelley B. Matthews star in the local production o f (Old Age Ain't) No Place for Sissies. JJ& K E Y FULL LOCKSMITH - SERVICE • RE-KEY AND INSTALL LOCKS LOCKED 0UT7-WE MAKE KEYS FROM SCRATCH: HOUSE, OFFICE OR CAR Portland 503.284.9582 * Oregon City 503.656.2116 Serving Portland/Metro area (N, NE, SE, SW & NW) An Alternative to Dying Young Concordia audiences will howl for ‘Old Age’ In an effort to calm the fears, explore the joys and illustrate the very real challenges o f aging. 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