Winfred Nettleton "Munn" Ware was an American jazz trombonist.
After having learned to play piano and banjo as a child, he took up the cornet while at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, first playing it professionally in Massachusetts before taking up the trombone around 1940.
[2] In 1946, Ware was in New York playing in bands led by Tony Parenti,[2] Wild Bill Davison,[2] and Danny Alvin.
[2] From June 1947 he worked regularly at the Jazz Ltd. club in Chicago as a member of the house band led by club's co-owner, Bill Reinhardt.
[2] At around this time, Ware recorded with Sidney Bechet, Muggsy Spanier, and Doc Evans.