found: African American National Biography, accessed June 12, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Clayton, Buck; Wilbur Dorsey Clayton; trumpeter, jazz musician, composer / arranger; born 12 November, 1911 in Parsons, Kansas, United States; graduated from high school (1932); trumpeter at dime-a-dance hall the Red Mill, in Los Angeles; member of Charlie Echols's big band; began to learn to orchestrate for big bands; began performing on Hollywood movie soundtracks, local clubs with Earl Dancer's band (until 1934); bandleader in Shanghai, China (1934-1936); trumpeter for Count Basie's band, in Reno Club, Kansas City, Missouri (1936-1943), played, recorded and toured, appeared with the band, and filmed Reveille with Beverly (1943); drafted to U.S. Army, in New Jersey, playing in army bands (1943-1946); made several tours, Jazz at the Philharmonic (1946); established a sextet, Café Society, in New York (1947) and toured Europe (1949-1950); made long European tour with different artists (1953); headed a series of long-playing jam sessions with Columbia label (1953-1956); appeared in movie The Benny Goodman Story (1955), television series The Subject Is Jazz (1958), Newport Jazz Festival; performed in South America, Brussels World's Fair, and London (1959) made tours through Europe (1960s), Japan and Australia (1964), Africa (1977); made film Buck Clayton and His All Stars (1961), British television series Jazz 625 (1965) and Jazz Goes to College (1966,1967); performed at Grande Parade du Jazz (Nice, France) (1979); taught in Hunter College (1978-1982); established his own big band (1987); died 08 December, 1991 in New York, New York, United States)
