Booker Pittman

Booker Pittman Booker Pittman American jazz musician Booker Pittman or Pitman (3 March 1909, Fairmount Heights, Maryland, USA – 19 October 1969, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a jazz clarinetist who played with Louis Armstrong and Count Basie in the US and Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. He also played alto and soprano saxophones. Musical career In 1930, Pittman was with Jap Allen's Cotton Club Orchestra, which included Joe Keyes, Ben Webster, Jim "Big Daddy" Walker, Clyde Hart, Slim Moore, Raymond Howell, Eddie "Orange" White, Al Denny, O.C. Wynne and Durwood "Dee" Stewart.[1] He later joined Bennie Moten's band.[2] He left the US for the first time in 1933, when he went with Lucky Millinder's orchestra to Monte Carlo,…

GENRES: Jazz, Soprano Saxophone