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William Jones Biography, Photos, Pictures

Not to be confused with the guitarist from Heatwave or a child actor from the ’40s, this William Jones plays the euphonium, a brass instrument that the musically illiterate sometimes mistake for a controversial escape plan for the elderly

William Kanter Woods Biography, Photos, Pictures

William Woods, the son of violinist Leonid Kanter, who played in big bands and orchestras, grew up in the New York metropolitan area and began playing the piano at age nine His first ambition was to be a concert pianist, but an interest in improvising led him toward jazz

William Lewis Biography, Photos, Pictures

Quite a few biographies in jazz history seem to include a sentence that goes something like this: “He got his professional start with Sabby Lewis’ band in Boston

The drummer William Lewis who recorded with Jelly Roll Morton should not be confused with the drummer of the same name who, among other studio assignments, played on early recordings by the Monkees

William Mackel Biography, Photos, Pictures

One of the great examples of loyalty in the music business was guitarist William “Billy” Mackel’s relationship with charismatic vibraphonist and bandleader Lionel Hampton

William McKinney Biography, Photos, Pictures

William McKinney is among the elite artists in black classical music to have an ensemble of immense historic importance named after him Never mind that the image associated with McKinney’s Cotton Pickers is not one that anyone is very happy about, the surname McKinney itself no doubt mingling down from some plantation owner

William Moore Biography, Photos, Pictures

He is not the trumpeter from the California Ramblers, to name just one performer with a similar name to William Moore who worked during the same era Moving swiftly through decades, as errors by discographers are bound to do, he is also not the arranger who worked for the Jimmie Lunceford band, the drummer for Ray Charles, or a Euro-disco hitmaker

William Parker Biography, Photos, Pictures

In the early ’90s, the direct musical heirs of Taylor, Ayler, and Coleman were mostly ignored by New York jazz critics, who found more to like about the hard bop revivalists who dominated major-label recording

William Randall Biography, Photos, Pictures

A stalwart of the Chicago jazz scene and a multi-instrumentalist as well as arranger, composer, and bandleader, William Randall seems to have done a slow fade from public view which began with a transition into part-time playing status in the ’60s

William Shepherd Biography, Photos, Pictures

This trombonist was credited as both William Shepherd and Bill Shepherd throughout a delightful pile of bebop sides, including one of the great Dizzy Gillespie big bands as well as the antic activity of James Moody, a flutist and saxophonist who was a Gillespie veteran as well

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