Munn Ware

{{Short description|American jazz trombonist}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Munn Ware | image = Jazz ltd band Nov 1947 front back.jpg | image_size = | landscape = | alt = | caption = The house band accompanying Sidney Bechet at his first residency at the Jazz, Ltd. club, November 1947<ref name=campbell>Campbell, Robert L. Robert Pruter, and Tom Kelly. [https://campber.people.clemson.edu/jazzltd.html "The Jazz Ltd. Label."] ''Red Saunders Research Foundation''. Retrieved 10 December 2022.</ref><br />Left to right: Bill Reinhardt, Danny Alvin, Bechet, Mel Grant, Munn Ware | birth_name = Winfred Nettleton Ware | birth_date = {{birth date|1909|2|12|mf=y}} | birth_place = Quincy, MA | death_date = {{death date and age|1970|8|9|1909|2|12|mf=y}} | death_place = Daytona Beach, FL | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician | instrument = Trombone | years_active = | label = }}

'''Winfred Nettleton "Munn" Ware''' was an American jazz trombonist.

After having learned to play piano and banjo as a child, he took up the cornet while at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, first playing it professionally in Massachusetts before taking up the trombone around 1940. From 1942 to 1946 he played that instrument in an army band.<ref name=kernfeld>Kernfeld, Barry. [https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/browse?page=225&pageSize=20&sort=titlesort&subSite=grovemusic&t=music_Topics%3A42&t0=music_Eras%3A9 "Ware, Munn".] ''Grove Music Online''. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 December 2022.</ref>

In 1946, Ware was in New York playing in bands led by Tony Parenti,<ref name=kernfeld/> Wild Bill Davison,<ref name=kernfeld/> and Danny Alvin.<ref name=kernfeld/>

From June 1947 he worked regularly at the Jazz Ltd. club in Chicago as a member of the house band led by club's co-owner, Bill Reinhardt.<ref name=kernfeld/> At around this time, Ware recorded with Sidney Bechet, Muggsy Spanier, and Doc Evans.<ref name=kernfeld/>

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