Booker Pittman or Pitman (3 March 1909, Fairmount Heights, Maryland, USA - 19 October 1969, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) was the son of Portia Pittman and a grandson of Booker T. Washington. He became an accomplished jazz clarinetist and played with greats like Louis Armstrong and Count Basie in the US and Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. He is also an alto and soprano saxophonist. His stepdaughter Eliana Pittman is a Brazilian jazz singer and actress.
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3 March 1909 Fairmount Heights, MD
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Died |
19 October 1969 (aged 60) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Zodiac | Pisces |
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