Michael Ray (trumpeter)

Michael Ray is an American jazz trumpeter. He tours extensively with Kool & the Gang, Sun Ra and the successor Sun Ra Arkestra under Marshall Allen's direction following Sun Ra's passing. For a period from the mid-1990s to the present he leads his own band, Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe. His playing with Sun Ra and independently has incorporated funkjazz, R & B, electronica and fusion genres.

24 December 1952

Born on the same birth day (24 December): Ad Reinhardt • Clarence Gilyard • Constance of Austria • Franco Lucentini • Hiroshi Ikushima • Johann Hartmann • Lev Vlassenko • Louis Tomlinson • Noel Streatfeild • Ralph Marterie

Born in the same month (December 1952): Bridget Prentice • Craig Newmark • David Knopfler • Dennis Boutsikaris • Duane Roland • Greg Mortimer • Jay Hill (politician) • Jean-Pierre Rives • Jenny Agutter • John Leventhal • John Lurie • June Anderson • Khaw Boon Wan • Liaqat Baloch • Paul Varul • Stephen Poliakoff • Susan Collins • Walter Murphy