Johnny Trudell (May 11, 1939 – May 29, 2021)[1][2] was an American jazz and studio musician and composer whose instruments included trumpet, flugelhorn, valve trombone, and piano.
Trudell graduated from Cass Tech High School and began working professionally as a musician.
He played on many classic Motown albums from the 1960s and early 1970s, working with artists and groups including Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves, The Temptations, The Four Tops, and many others.
Trudell also played with the Tribe and was involved in a big band album by Wendell Harrison, Live In Concert, 1992.
[4] He also worked from the early 1970s with The New McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Olive Brown & Her Blues Chasers, Barbara Ware, and Ron Kischuk.