Trumpeter and bandleader, Charlie Spivak (1905 or 1907-1982) grew up in New Haven, Connecticut and learned to play trumpet at 10 years old. In his professional career, Spivak played with a number of ...

Mr. Spivak had metastatic cancer, the result of a decades-long smoking habit. The son of the 1940s big-band leader Charlie Spivak, the younger Spivak got his start in radio as a disc jockey and ...