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Joe Gordon was an American jazz trumpeter born on May 15, 1928, in Boston, Massachusetts. He began his professional career in 1947 and played with notable musicians such as Georgie Auld, Charlie Mariano, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker (intermittently from 1953 to 1955), Art Blakey (1954), Don Redman, Dizzy Gillespie (on tour in 1956), Horace Silver, Barney Kessel, Benny Carter, Harold Land, and Shelly Manne (1958-1960), among others. Throughout his career, he recorded two albums under his own name: "Introducing Joe Gordon" in 1955 and "Lookin' Good!" in 1961. Tragically, Gordon passed away on November 4, 1963, in Santa Monica, California, due to a house fire after falling asleep with a lit cigarette.

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