Collection of music manuscripts, recordings and papers, 1950-1997.

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Collection of music manuscripts, recordings and papers, 1950-1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47623182

Collection consists of jazz, classical and popular recordings, videotapes, method books, fake books, transcriptions, scores and parts, photographs, correspondence and written and printed ephemera.

70 boxes (35 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7582536

University of California, Los Angeles

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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...