Central Avenue sounds : William Ernest Green : oral history transcript / interviewed by Steven L. Isoardi. Completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.

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Central Avenue sounds : William Ernest Green : oral history transcript / interviewed by Steven L. Isoardi. Completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.

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Green discusses his childhood in Kansas City; experiences with WPA musicians and the Navy; education at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music; influential musicians; gigs and studio work on Central Avenue; the decline of Central Avenue.

Transcript: 1 v. (viii, 73 leaves) : port. ; 29 cm.

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Isoardi, Steven Louis, 1949-

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Green, William Ernest, 1925-

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William Green was born in Kansas City, Kan. and began to play alto saxophone in the 1930s. He performed with the local WPA Big Band until he was 15, where he met Louis Witworth, who became his musical mentor. After serving in the army, he moved to Los Angeles in 1945-46 on the GI Bill and there joined in the Central Avenue jazz scene, where he worked with local jazz artists, such as Buddy Colette. He also attended the LA Conservatory of Music and Arts as a student (1947-1952) and later taught th...

University of California, Los Angeles. Oral History Program

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