Wilson, Gerald Stanley, 1918-2014
Americans
Biographical notes:
Gerald Stanley Wilson (September 4, 1918, Shelby, Mississippi – September 8, 2014, Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. He arranged music for Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson.
Links to collections
John R. Tumpak Big Band Oral History Collection
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center
Fitzgerald, Ella. Ella Fitzgerald collection, 1956-1992 (bulk 1960-1985).
Library of Congress
Duke Ellington recordings collection
Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard College Library
News Service Biographical Files, ., circa 1930s - 2004
University Archives, Duke University.
The Benny Goodman Papers, 1910-1992, inclusive
Irving S. Gilmore Music Library
John Mason Brown papers, 1922-1967.
Houghton Library
Ella Fitzgerald Collection, 1956-1992, (bulk 1960-1985)
Library of Congress. Music Division
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Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969
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Dodge, Joseph Jeffers
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Fitzgerald, Ella.
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Fitzgerald, Ella.
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Goodman, Benny, 1909-
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Duke University. News Service.
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