Booty Wood, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American jazz musician
Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1919
Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 10-Jun-1987
Profession: jazz musician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Booty Wood
- Mitchell W.
- Wood, better known as Booty Wood (December 27, 1919, Dayton, Ohio - June 10, 1987, Dayton) was an American jazz trombonist. Wood played professionally on trombone from the late 1930s.
- He worked with Tiny Bradshaw and Lionel Hampton in the 1940s before joining the Navy during World War II.
- While there he played in a band with Clark Terry, Willie Smith, and Gerald Wilson.
- After his service ended he returned to play with Hampton, then worked with Arnett Cobb (1947–48), Erskine Hawkins (1948-50), and Count Basie (1951). He spent a few years outside music, then played with Duke Ellington in 1959-60 and again in 1963; he returned once more early in the 1970s.
- He again played with the Count Basie Orchestra from 1979 into the middle of the following decade.
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