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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Raymond Scott, William Grant Still, Percy Faith, Leslie Dunner, Hamilton Harty, Billy Vaughn, Sid Feller, Paul Weston, Steve Bingham, Nayden Todorov, Wolfgang Stresemann, Arthur Briggs, Sammy Watkins, Billy Reid. Excerpt:For the rugby union footballer of the 1890s for England, and Bradford F.C., see Arthur 'Spafty' Briggs Arthur Briggs (b. April 9, 1899; d. July 15, 1991 in Paris ) was an African American Jazz trumpeter and orchestra leader who performed in Europe . Briggs played with Will Marion Cook at the end of the 1910s. In the early 1920s, he emigrated to Europe. In 1927, he founded the "Savoy Syncopator's Orchestra" in Berlin , one of the earlier recordings of jazz made in Europe. In 1928 Briggs broke up this group to join Noble Sissle 's orchestra. Briggs was related to tubist Pete Briggs . See also (online edition) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Billy Reid (1902-1975) was a United Kingdom orchestra leader, songwriter and accordionist . When the vocalist Dorothy Squires joined his band, he took it as an opportunity to write songs especially for her, many of them, such as "The Gypsy ," "A Tree in the Meadow ," and "I'm Walking Behind You ," became hits in the United States for other vocalists. He formed a number of accordion bands, primarily The London Piano-Accordion Band. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Richard "Billy" Vaughn (April 12, 1919 - September 26, 1991) was an American singer , multi-instrumentalist , and orchestra leader. He was born in Glasgow , Kentucky , where his father was a barber who loved music and inspired Billy to teach himself to play the mandolin at age of three, while suffering from measles . He went on to learn a number of other instruments. In 1941 Vaughn joined the United States National Guar... ... Read more

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Title: Current research twelve years after the William Grant still centennial.(Biography)
Author: Gayle Murchison
Publication: Black Music Research Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 25Issue: 1-2Page: 119(36)

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Title: African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Fela Sowande. Paul Freeman, Chicago Sinfonietta. Cedille Records CDR 90000 055.(Review) (sound recording review)
Author: John Puccio
Publication: Sensible Sound (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2001
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