Spiegle Willcox

Newell "Spiegle" Willcox (May 2, 1903 in Sherburne, New York – August 25, 1999 in Cortland, New York) was a jazz trombonist. He was born Newell Lynn Willcox in upstate New York, and learned valve trombone as a youngster under the tuition of his father, Lynn Willcox, an amateur musician and bandleader. As a student of Manlius Military Academy, where he also played in the school brass band, he acquired the familiar nickname Spiegle, after one of the horses... meer