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Dick Whitsell

Dick Whitsell (born 1936 in Chicago; died 1986 in Ojai, CA) was an American jazz trumpeter. He met Paul Winter at Northwestern University in the fall of 1957 and in 1961 he was a founding member of [a=The Paul Winter Sextet]. He played on all five albums by the Sextet and performed both during the 1962 tour of Latin America and the Caribbean and during the concert at the White House at the end of that year. Whitsell gave up his music career and left the Sextet at the end of 1963 to attend medical school.