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William Thornton BLUE: the creative but forgotten clarinettist
William ‘Bill’ Thornton BLUE
(January 31, Cape Girardeau, Missouri - April , Trenton, New Jersey)
Clarinet and alto saxophone
with the Missourians then with Cab Calloway’s orchestra until January of fall
Listen to Cab Calloway’s recordings from the early s If your ear is dominated by a hopping, acrobatic and remarkably creative clarinet sound, you are enjoying one of the great forgotten musicians in the History of Jazz who spent more than 30 years in an asylum: William Thornton BLUE. It is my good friend the late Christian Bonnet () — whose ear was particularly demanding - that made me discover the talent of this clarinetist and alto saxophonist whose solos give a unique sound to the first Calloway shellacs The Hi De Ho Blog will tell you the almost unknown story of the man who nicknamed himself “The reputed Blue”.
• American jazz and rock saxophonist (–) Musical artist Mars Williams in Aarhus, Denmark in Marc Charles "Mars" Williams (May 29, – November 20, ) was an American jazz and rock saxophonist. He was a member of the American new wave band The Waitresses from to , and a member of the British post-punk grupp The Psychedelic Furs from to and again from until his death in Williams also was a founding member of the acid jazz group Liquid Soul, and a member of the free jazz-oriented NRG Ensemble. Exposed to swing music and Dixieland jazz bygd his trumpeter father, Williams played classical clarinet for ten years before migrating to saxophone in his last year of high school, citing the influence of Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker.[2][3] After attending DePaul University for a period of time, he took courses from the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, where he studied under founders Anthony Braxton • In a career that spans five decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage. He has served as music director and laureate conductor of one of the country’s treasured musical institutions, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and he maintains thriving artistic relationships with many of the world’s great orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mr. Williams has received a variety of prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honor, the Olympic Order, and numerous Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. He remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. Mr. Williams has composed the music and served as music director for more than one hundred films. His year artistic partnership w
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