Booker Pittman or Pitman (3 March 1909, Fairmount Heights, Maryland, USA – 19 October 1969, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a jazz clarinetist who played with Louis Armstrong and Count Basie in the US and Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1930, Pittman was with Jap Allen's Cotton Club Orchestra, which included Joe Keyes, Ben Webster, Jim "Big Daddy" Walker, Clyde Hart, Slim Moore, Raymond Howell, Eddie "Orange" White, Al Denny, O.C.
[2] He left the US for the first time in 1933, when he went with Lucky Millinder's orchestra to Monte Carlo, and then to Paris, where he stayed for four years.
He died of laryngeal cancer at his home in the São Paulo quarter of Vila Nova Conceição at the age of 60.
At the behest of his wife Ofélia, he was transferred to Rio de Janeiro and buried at the Cemitério São João Batista, in the Botafogo quarter.