caption associated_acts death_date death_place birth_place name background birth_date instrument genre image article_title birth_name
jimmy knepper with the national jazz ensemble charles mingus , the thad jones/mel lewis orchestra 14 june 2003 triadelphia , west virginia los angeles , california jimmy knepper non_vocal_instrumentalist 22 november 1927 trombone jazz jimmy knepper.jpg jimmy knepper
 james minter knepper
jimmy knepper

james minter -lrb- jimmy -rrb- knepper -lrb- november 22 , 1927 -- june 14 , 2003 -rrb- was an american jazz trombonist .
in addition to his own recordings as leader , knepper performed and/or recorded throughout his career with many of the top figures in jazz including the bands of charlie barnet , woody herman , claude thornhill , stan kenton , benny goodman , gil evans , thad jones & mel lewis , toshiko akiyoshi & lew tabackin , and , most famously , as friend and arranging/transcribing partner of bassist and composer charles mingus in the late 1950s and early 1960s .
knepper died in 2003 of complications of parkinson 's disease .
