Real name: Robert Lee Shoffner

Effective period / Period of releases: 1962

American jazz trumpeter.
Born: April 4, 1900 in Bessie, Tennessee (not St. Louis, Missouri as stated in some sources;he moved to this city soon after his birth).
Died: March 5, 1983 in Chicago, Illinois.

Shoffner played with Charlie Creath, Honore Dutrey, King Oliver, Dave Peyton, Charles Elgar, Erskine Tate, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Frankie Jaxon, Fess Williams, Fletcher Henderson, Hot Lips Page and others.