Urbie Green

In 1995 Green was elected into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. He continued playing live at the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts (COTA) Festival every September into the last years of his life.

In 1953 he moved to New York City and a year later was voted New Star trombonist in the International Critics Poll at Down Beat magazine. During the 1950s and 1960s he toured with Benny Goodman and led the Tommy Dorsey orchestra after Dorsey's death in 1956. He worked with record producer Enoch Light on the albums The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green and 21 Trombones. Green spent his later life with his second wife Kathy, a jazz singer, at their home in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania.

When Green was fifteen his father died and he began his music career, first with the Tommy Reynolds in California, then with Bob Strong, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle. At Auburn High School he was member of The Auburn Knights Orchestra. In 1947 he joined Gene Krupa's band and three years later, with his brother Jack, became a member of Woody Herman's Thundering Herd

Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green (August 8, 1926 – December 31, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist who toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle. He played on over 250 recordings and released more than two dozen albums as a soloist. He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1995.