He began playing professionally as a child, worked with some of jazz’s biggest names in the late 1950s, and remained a leading figure in the music for the next 60 years.He began playing professionally as a child, worked with some of jazz’s biggest names in the late 1950s, and remained a leading figure in the music for the next 60 years.Read MoreHampton, Slide, Deaths (Obituaries), Jazz, Colleges and Universities, National Endowment for the Arts, Trombone