Willie Dennis

Willie Dennis (né William DeBerardinis, January 10, 1926, Philadelphia – July 8, 1965, New York City) was an American jazz trombonist known as a big band musician but who was also an influential bebop soloist.

He married singer Morgana King in 1961. They had no children.

They had only been married for a few years when he died in 1965 in an automobile accident in Central Park, New York City.