Not to be confused with Charlie Green (football), or Charlie Green (Britains Got Talent)

Charlie Green was one of the early trombonists and the first strong jazz soloist in the Fletcher Henderson orchestra (joining slightly before Louis Armstrong). The trombone is a Musical instrument in the brass family Like all brass instruments it is a lip-reed Aerophone: sound is produced when the player’s Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Fletcher Hamilton Henderson Jr ( December 18, 1897 &ndash December 28, 1952) was an American pianist bandleader Arranger Louis Armstrong (August 4 1901 &ndash July 6 1971 nicknamed Satchmo or Sachimo and Pops, was an American Jazz Trumpeter

Green was born in Omaha, Nebraska in circa 1900 and died in 1936 in New York City. Nebraska ( is a state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and The City of New York He played locally in Omaha (1920-1923) before his two stints with Henderson (July 1924-April 1926 and late 1928-spring 1929). Described as "A superior blues player who could also swing fairly early", Green starred on several classic Bessie Smith recordings (including one called "Trombone Cholly"), recorded in the 1920s with several other blues singers, and also worked with the bands of Benny Carter (1929-1931 and 1933), Chick Webb (several times during 1930-1934), Jimmie Noone (1931), Don Redman (1932), and at the end with Kaiser Marshall. The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression Bessie Smith (July 9 1892 or April 15 1894&ndash September 26 1937 was an American Blues singer Bennett Lester Carter (born August 8, 1907 in Harlem New York; died July 12, 2003 in Los Angeles California) was William Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb ( February 10, 1905 – June 16, 1939) was a Jazz and Swing music Jimmie Noone (or Jimmy Noone; born April 23 1895 in Cut Off Louisiana &ndash died April 19 1944 in Los Angeles Donald Matthew Redman ( July 29, 1900, Piedmont, West Virginia - November 30, 1964, New York) was an American Joseph "Kaiser" Marshall (June 11 1899 Savannah Georgia - January 3 1948 New York City) was an American Jazz drummer In 1928 Green played in the orchestra of the revue Keep Shufflin' together with Fats Waller and James P. Johnson. A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical Entertainment that combines Music, dance and sketches. Fats Waller (born Thomas Wright Waller on May 21, 1904 &mdash December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist James Price Johnson ( February 1 1894 &ndash November 17 1955) was an African-American Pianist and Composer.

According to jazz historian John Chilton (in his book Who's Who of Jazz) Green's is premature death was from passing out on his doorstep in Harlem on a cold February night after having been unable to get into his home, and thus freezing to death. John James Chilton (born 16 July 1932 in London England is a British jazz trumpeter and writer Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African American cultural and business center This story has however been disputed by Frederick J. Spencer, M. D. , in his book Jazz and Death, Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats.