Complex sentence: Melvin Edward Alton "Turk" Murphy (born Palermo, California, December 16,1915; died New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30,1987) was renowned as a trombonist who played traditional and dixieland jazz in San Francisco.
Split into simpler sentences: Melvin Edward Alton "Turk" Murphy was born in Palermo, California, December 16,1915. He was most renowned as a trombonist who played traditional and dixieland jazz in San Francisco.