Don Jacoby Collection, 1959-1999

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Don Jacoby Collection, 1959-1999

1959-1999

https://findingaids.library.unt.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=151

The collection consists of four boxes, which primarily contain scores of works and arrangements by Jacoby and others, along with other papers and a small collection of sound and video recordings.

4 boxes

eng, Latn

University of North Texas. Music Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11640998

University of North Texas. Music Library

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Jacoby, Don, 1920-1992

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Donald Bernard "Jake" Jacoby was born on May 28, 1920 in York, Pennsylvania. He began playing trumpet at age 6, and became a soloist with the Spring Garden Band at age 9; he appeared on radio stations WCAU in Philadelphia and WJZ in New York. At age 16, he studied with Ernest S. Williams at his School of Music in Brooklyn, New York. By the time he graduated at age 19, he had been a soloist at Carnegie Hall. After graduating, he joined the Milt Britton band, and then the Les Brown band. Jacoby jo...