Billy Butterfield
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Charles William Butterfield was an American jazz bandleader, trumpeter, flugelhornist, and cornetist.
Billy Butterfield in the Artie Shaw band, 1940
Charlie Spivak
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Charlie Spivak was an American trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his big band in the 1940s.
Billy Butterfield
…Crosby (1937–1940), and later performed with Artie Shaw, Les Brown, and Benny Goodman. While with Bob Crosby, he initially played third trumpet behind Charlie Spivak and Yank Lawson. When those two left Crosby to join Tommy Dorsey's band in 1938, Butterfield was given the chance to solo on a song written by Crosby…
Charlie Spivak (1944)