page_title: 1951 in jazz
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1951 in jazz / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Mildred Bailey, Carnegie Hall(?), New York, N.Y.
context_page_description: This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1951.
context_section_description: January
  21 – R.Q. Dickerson, American trumpeter (born 1898).
  February
  7 – Shirley Clay, American trumpeter (born 1902).
  March
  25 – Sid Catlett, American swinging drummer (born 1910).
  May
  4 – Doc West, American drummer (born 1915).
  August
  17 – Ray Wetzel, American trumpeter (born 1924).
  October
  26 – Charlie Creath, American trumpeter, saxophonist, accordionist, and bandleader (born 1890).
  December
  3 – Cyril Blake, Trinidadian trumpeter (born 1900).
  12 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (born 1903).
  23 – Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine tango and milonga pianist, bandoneónist, and singer (born 1901).
  26 – Vic Berton, American jazz drummer (born 1896).
  Unknown date
  Valentin Parnakh, Russian poet, translator, historian, explorer, musician, choreographer, ballet master, best remembered as a founding father of Soviet jazz (born 1891).
caption: Mildred Bailey
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