Wilbert Baranco was an American jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 pianist and bandleader.

Baranco played with Curtis Mosby

Curtis Mosby

Curtis J. Mosby was an American jazz drummer, bandleader, and businessman....

 in the early 1930s and then put together his own bands in the 1930s and 1940s, including several military band

Military band

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s during World War II

World War II

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. He recorded with Ernie Andrews

Ernie Andrews

Ernie Andrews is an American jazz, blues, and pop singer. He grew up in Los Angeles, California, and one of his first jobs was with the Harry James orchestra. He went on to be recorded by Columbia Records and others...

 in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 in 1945, and led a trio which included Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...

 around that time as well. He served as the accompanist for Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington

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 when she sang with the Lucky Thompson

Lucky Thompson

Eli "Lucky" Thompson was a United States jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist...

 All-Stars. Some time after the war he put together an ensemble known as Wilbert Baranco & His Rhythm Bombardiers, composed of former servicemen; this group recorded with, among others, Vic Dickenson

Vic Dickenson

Vic Dickenson was an African-American jazz trombonist. Dickenson's career started out in the 1920s and led him through musical partnerships with such legends as Count Basie , Sidney Bechet and Earl Hines...

, Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

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, and Willie "The Lion" Smith. He also recorded in the 1940s with Jackie Kelson and Snooky Young

Snooky Young

Eugene Edward "Snooky" Young was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known for his mastery of the plunger mute, with which he was able to create a wide range of sounds.-Biography:...

. He became a music teacher after the 1940s. He is the father of Lafayette Morehouse

Lafayette Morehouse

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founder Victor Baranco.