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Charles Greenlee

Charles Greenlee has been played on NTS in shows including If Music Presents You Need This w/ Jean-Claude, featured first on 3 June 2014. Songs played include He's Gone.

Charles "Majeed" or "Majid" Greenlee (April or May 24, 1927 – January 23, 1993) was an American jazz trombonist.

Greenlee played mellophone, drums, and baritone horn in his youth, and got his early experience playing locally in Detroit. He played with Lucky Millinder and Benny Carter in the early 1940s, then with Dizzy Gillespie (1946, 1949-51). He also led his own bands around this time, working with Frank Foster and Tommy Flanagan. Late in the 1940s he…

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