Jimmy Knepper Quintet

Jimmy Knepper (James Minter Knepper, November 22, 1927 – June 14, 2003) was an American jazz trombonist.

In addition to his own recordings as leader, Knepper performed and, or recorded throughout his career with many of the top figures in jazz including the bands of Charlie Barnet, Woody Herman, Claude Thornhill, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Gil Evans, Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, Toshiko Akiyoshi & Lew Tabackin, and, most famously, as friend and arranging/transcribing partner of bassist and composer Charles Mingus in the late 1950s and early 1960s.