page_title: Harold Betters
hierarchical_section_title: Harold Betters
caption_attribution_description: Trade ad for Harold Betters' single "Do Anything You Wanna".To better adapt it to his respective Wikipedia article, the ad was cropped and cleaned in a graphics editing program. The original can be viewed at the source below.
context_page_description: Harold Betters is an American jazz trombone player. A prominent jazz musician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Betters released nine LPs on Gateway Records, and three LPs for Reprise.
  Born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Betters is the brother of drummer and singer Jerry Betters.
  Betters studied music education at Ithaca College for two years, and then studied at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music for a year.
  In the 1950s he made a tour with the Ray Charles big band, playing at the Apollo Theatre. Thereafter, he led his own quartet which included pianist John Thomas and Jerry Betters on drums.
  Betters, who plays in the style of Trummy Young and Bennie Green, is still active.
context_section_description: Harold Betters (born March 21, 1928) is an American jazz trombone player. A prominent jazz musician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Betters released nine LPs on Gateway Records, and three LPs for Reprise.
  Born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Betters is the brother of drummer and singer Jerry Betters.
  Betters studied music education at Ithaca College for two years, and then studied at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music for a year.
  In the 1950s he made a tour with the Ray Charles big band, playing at the Apollo Theatre. Thereafter, he led his own quartet which included pianist John Thomas and Jerry Betters on drums.
  Betters, who plays in the style of Trummy Young and Bennie Green, is still active.
caption: Harold Betters in 1964
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