Wendell Culley (Trumpet)
Born: 8th January 1906, Worcester, Massachusetts
Died: 8th May 1983, Los Angeles, CA
Nationality: American
Wendell Philips Culley was an American jazz trumpeter and occasional multi instrumentalist.
Growing up in Worcester, Culley played regularly at the AME Zion Church, in the Commerce High School band, and occasionally with Mamie Moffitt and Her Five Jazz Hounds. He also played in Boots Ward's Nite Hawks, and in working groups with his brother Ray, a drummer and singer. His older sister is actress, Zara Cully, best known for her role as Olivia 'Mother Jefferson' Jefferson on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons.
In 1931, he moved to New York City, where he found early work playing with Horace Henderson and Cab Calloway.
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