Buster Cooper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American trombonist
Date of Birth: 04-Apr-1929
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Date of Death: 13-May-2016
Profession: jazz musician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Buster Cooper
- George "Buster" Cooper (April 4, 1929 – May 13, 2016) was an American jazz trombonist. Cooper was born in St.
- Petersburg, Florida.
- He played in a territory band with Nat Towles in Texas in the late 1940s, and gigged with Lionel Hampton in 1953.
- He played in the house band at the Apollo Theater in New York City in the mid-1950s, and following this spent time with Benny Goodman.
- Late in the 1950s he and his brother Steve formed a unit, the Cooper Brothers Band.
- From 1962 to 1969, he was a trombonist in Duke Ellington's Orchestra.
- In 1973, he moved to Los Angeles and played in various jazz orchestras there over the next several decades; among them were The Juggernaut and Bill Berry's L.A.
- band. Cooper was the bandleader of the Buster Cooper Trio, at The Garden Restaurant, St.
- Petersburg, Florida. Buster Cooper died on May 13, 2016 of prostate cancer, in St.
- Petersburg, Florida, at age 87.
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