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Show Jazz artist to play for Homecoming By Darrell Leo Jazz virtuoso Gerald Wilson will play for the 1968 Homecoming dance, committee chairman Stafford Sorenson announced. "He played a few years ago at the UnUrsity for the Senior Banquet and got a standing ovation," said Sorenson. "He was Arranger, composer and trumpeter, Gerald Wilson .s 1 jazz, Wilson has nearlv , chosen the orchestra! C He has played LeRoy Vinnegar BuiW-Curtis BuiW-Curtis Couniffi has backed manvi -Na-y Wi,s deceives High Ratin; For the past three years kl been number four Downbeat poll, which most popular bands in the During 1966 Willi with Bill Cosby Ti't Theater in Los Angeles..? also had egagemS J Playboy Club and the Chez J Angeles and Gotham's Street East. k: A frequent compose,,, arranger for motion picturesc tracks ("Where The Bo !J and television, he has become , integral part of the film ita Among his album relies You Better Believe if "McCannWilson," "Fe(li;. Good" and "On Stage." " perhaps one of the outstanding all around musical minds and talents that jazz has produced. Born in Shelby, Miss., into a family where music was accepted as a social entertainment, Wilson began his formal musical education in grade school, receiving training on both trumpet and piano. When his family moved to Detroit, Mich., he attended school at Cass Technical Institute, where his musical interests were further fostered. As a professional musician, Wilson entered jazz during the late swing era at a time when the bebop movement was beginning. During the 1940's, he was a trumpeter for the bands of Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington. His own band was one of the proving grounds for youngsters endeavoring to enter modern music. Though the band was underrecorded, it was considered on the best. A composer and arranger of |
