Johnny Letman

Johnny Letman (September 6, 1917, McCormick, South CarolinaObituary: Johnny Letman, The Independent, Retrieved 2018-06-24. – July 17, 1992) was an American jazz trumpeter.
Letman played early in his career in midwest bands, including those of Jerry Valentine, Scatman Crothers, and Jimmy Raschelle. Moving to Chicago in the middle of the 1930s, he worked with Delbert Bright, Bob Tinsley, Johnny Lang, Nat King Cole (1938), Horace Henderson (1941–42), and Red Saunders (1942). He spent a year or... meer