Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Theodore "Wingie" Carpenter (April 15, 1898–July 21, 1975) was a jazz trumpet player, singer, and band leader active from the 1920s through the 1960s.Carpenter lost his left arm as the result of an accident during his early teens, with the amputation performed by a noted surgeon who was an uncle of jazz musician Doc Cheatham. Sometime later, he took up the trumpet and by 1920 he was working in traveling carnival shows, and in 1921 he toured with Herbert's Minstrel Band.. }
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- Theodore_Carpenter comment "Theodore "Wingie" Carpenter (April 15, 1898–July 21, 1975) was a jazz trumpet player, singer, and band leader active from the 1920s through the 1960s.Carpenter lost his left arm as the result of an accident during his early teens, with the amputation performed by a noted surgeon who was an uncle of jazz musician Doc Cheatham. Sometime later, he took up the trumpet and by 1920 he was working in traveling carnival shows, and in 1921 he toured with Herbert's Minstrel Band.".