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Ray Wetzel

American jazz trumpeter, born September 22, 1924 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, died August 17, 1951 in Sedgwick, Colorado ( killed in a car crash). Worked with Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Vido Musso, Neal Hefti, Charlie Barnet, Maynard Ferguson,Doc Severinsen, Rolf Ericson and others. Married [a=Bonnie Wetzel] in 1949.