{{short description|American jazz musician}}

{{for|the Scottish castle|Lee Castle, South Lanarkshire}} '''Lee Castle''' (February 28, 1915 – November 16, 1990)<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=440}}</ref> was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He was born '''Lee Aniello Castaldo''', and performed under this name early in his career.<ref name="LarkinGE"/>

His first major professional job was with Joe Haymes in 1935; following this he worked with Artie Shaw (1936, 1941), Tommy Dorsey (1937-41; also studied under Dorsey's father), Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller (1939), Will Bradley (1941), and Benny Goodman (1943).<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He put together his own band in 1938, and continued to lead off and on through the 1940s.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He adopted the name Lee Castle in 1942.<ref name="LarkinGE"/>

In 1953, he returned to duty under Tommy Dorsey and his brother Jimmy Dorsey; after Jimmy's death, Castle became the leader of his ensemble, remaining in the position until the 1980s.<ref name="LarkinGE"/>

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;General references *[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p8232/biography|pure_url=yes}} Lee Castle] at AllMusic *Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz''. Oxford, 1999, p.&nbsp;117. {{ISBN|0195074181}}

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