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Sep 11, 2014 · Gerald Wilson has died at the age of 96. His jazz career began in a different era, the time of the big bands in the 1930s. Count Basie, Duke Ellington and the Los Angeles Philharmonic played his ...
Dec 27, 2013 · The Gerald Wilson Orchestra: A Living 'Legacy' July 15, 2011 • Now in his 90s, Wilson has played with and composed for many of the biggest names in jazz. For his latest album, he enlisted the ...
Feb 1, 2021 · Gerald Wilson. 1918-2014. A jazz composer who redefined big band music. Elegant, swinging, exuberant – it’s hard to find one word to describe the lush music of Gerald Wilson, one of the most ...
Dec 27, 2013 · Gerald Wilson On Piano Jazz The late bandleader, composer, arranger and trumpeter was famed for sophisticated musical ideas and dedicated to the infinite possibilities of jazz. Hear a 2006 session.
Nov 1, 2000 · Hard bop artists such as Curtis Amy, Paul Bryant, Frank Butler, The Jazz Crusaders, Charles Kynard and Gerald Wilson have been much less represented in the entire scheme of things. In Wilson’s case, out of the ten albums he made during his stay with Pacific Jazz, only two have ever been reissued on CD in the United States.
Sep 10, 2014 · Gerald Stanley Wilson was born in Shelby, Miss., on Sept. 4, 1918. He later moved with his family to Detroit, started out on piano and bought his first trumpet at age 11. During his tenure as a ...
Sep 15, 2014 · September 15, 2014. Gerald Wilson, 96, a music legend who enlivened packed jazz history classes at UCLA with his memories of working with Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles and other jazz icons, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles two weeks after contracting pneumonia. A bandleader, trumpeter, composer, arranger and educator ...
