Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh (October 4, 1909, Paris

Paris

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 - July 12, 1976, London

London

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) was an English jazz

Jazz

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 saxophonist.

Featherstonhaugh studied in Sussex

Sussex

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, and had his first professional gig with Pat O'Malley

J. Pat O'Malley

James Patrick O'Malley was an English singer and character actor, who appeared in many American films and television programs during the 1940s–1970s, using the stage name J. Pat O'Malley...

 in 1927. He was with Spike Hughes

Spike Hughes

Patrick "Spike" Cairns Hughes was a British jazz musician, composer and music journalist. He was the son of Irish composer, writer and song collector Herbert Hughes...

 from 1930 to 1932, and toured England in Billy Mason

Billy Mason

Billy "Thunder" Mason is an American drummer who is a member of Tim McGraw's touring band, The Dancehall Doctors. He has toured and/or recorded with numerous artists such as Tobin Sprout, Faith Hill, Bill Anderson, Paulette Carlson, among others. Mason has also trained with drummer Charlie Adams....

's band behind Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....

 that same year. In 1933 he recorded with a group called The Cosmopolitans, which included Fletcher Allen

Fletcher Allen

Fletcher Allen was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States...

. He recorded with Valaida Snow

Valaida Snow

Valaida Snow was an African American jazz musician and entertainer.She was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Raised on the road in a show-business family, she learned to play cello, bass, banjo, violin, mandolin, harp, accordion, clarinet, trumpet, and saxophone at professional levels by the time...

 in 1935 and Benny Carter

Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King...

 in 1937. During World War II

World War II

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, he led a Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

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 band which had among its members Vic Lewis

Vic Lewis

Vic Lewis was a British jazz guitarist and bandleader.Lewis began playing the guitar at the age of three, and dabbled with cornet and trombone. One of his early bands included George Shearing, then a teenager, among its members...

, Don McAffer, and Jack Parnell

Jack Parnell

John Russell Parnell was an English bandleader and musician.-Biography:Parnell was born into a theatrical family in London....

. They went on to record as The BBC

BBC

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 Radio Rhythm Club Sextet during 1943-45. After the war he toured Iceland

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 in 1946, and then left the jazz scene, taking up work as a car salesman. In 1956 he returned to play in a quintet with Leon Calvert, Roy Sidewell, Kenny Wheeler

Kenny Wheeler

Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC is a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. since the 1950s....

, and Bobby Wellins

Bobby Wellins

Robert Coull "Bobby" Wellins is a Scottish tenor saxophonist best known for his collaboration with Stan Tracey on the seminal 1965 British jazz album Under Milk Wood....

. He toured the Middle East

Middle East

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 in 1957 and then went into permanent retirement.

He also was an occasional racing car driver. In 1934 he took over Whitney Straight

Whitney Straight

Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight CBE, MC, DFC was a Grand Prix motor racing driver, aviator, businessman, and a member of the prominent Whitney family of the United States....

s car, a Maserati 26M

Maserati 26M

The Maserati 26M were thirteen Grand Prix race cars made by Maserati in Bologna between 1930 and 1932.Before the 26M, the original 8-cylinder Tipo 26/8C 1500 from 1926 had evolved intoversion such as 26B, 26C/8C 2100 and 26R...

, winning the Albi Grand Prix as member of the Team Straight.