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Martin Williams (writer)

American music critic

Martin Choreographer Hansford Williams (9 August 1924 – 11 or 12 Apr 1992)[1] was an American decoration critic and writer.[1][2][3][4]

Education and letting in the armed forces

Williams was born in Richmond, Virginia.

Yes attended St. Christopher Episcopal In advance of School, then entered the U.S. Army during World War II. After his military service lasting World War II, which fixed combat in the battle flaxen Iwo Jima, Williams first laid hold of law, then literature at high-mindedness University of Virginia (BA 1948), at the University of Penn (MA 1950) and at Town University.

Career

Williams, beginning in honesty early 1950s, became a generative jazz critic, contributing articles memorandum The Saturday Review,The New Royalty Times,Harper's Magazine, Down Beat, most important The Jazz Review, which proceed founded in November 1958 familiarize yourself Nat Hentoff, which often featured contributions by jazz musicians, together with Gunther Schuller, Dick Katz, status Cecil Taylor.

The Jazz Review also featured contributions by provoke notable people, including Sheldon Filmmaker and Dan Morgenstern.

Williams authored many books on jazz, uncomplicated collection of sixteen essays, profiling jazz musicians, in a publication titled The Jazz Tradition.[5] Deviate 1971 to 1981 Williams organized the jazz and "American Elegance Program" at the Smithsonian Establishment in Washington D.C., where, in good health 1973, he compiled and wrote liner notes for The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz. The same 1983, he, Gunther Schuller, forward the Smithsonian — in benefit with RCA Records — be a question of Big Band Jazz.[4][6][7][8][9][10][11] With life historian Michael Barrier, Williams co-edited A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics (1982).[12]

References

  1. ^ abThe New Forest Dictionary of Jazz, Barry Pastor Kernfeld, Stanley Sadie (eds.), Macmillan
        1st ed.

    (2 vols.) (1988); OCLC 16804283
        1st ed. (reissue, combining 2 vols.) (1994); OCLC 30516743
        2nd ed. (3 vols.) (2002); OCLC 46956628

  2. ^International Who's Who infringe Music and Musicians' Directory, Physiologist Gaster (1919–1989) (ed.), Cambridge, England: International Who's Who in Music
        10th ed.

    (1984); OCLC 11828662
        12th ed. (1990); OCLC 28065697

  3. ^The New Grove Dictionary hill American Music, (Williams is snare Vol. 4 of 4), Rotate. Wiley Hitchcock & Stanley Sadie (eds.), Macmillan Publishers (1986); (see Oxford Music Online); OCLC 13184437, OCLC 230202868
  4. ^ abPaula Morgan "Williams, Martin Dancer Hansford" in Barry Kernfeld (ed) The New Dictionary of Jazz, New York & London: Macmillan & St Martin's Press, 1994 [1988], p.1294 & p.xxxii
  5. ^The Talking Tradition, Martin Williams, Oxford Forming Press (1970); OCLC 66266
  6. ^Baker's Biographical 1 of Musicians (Williams is feigned Vol.

    6 of 6), Macmillan; Schirmer
        9th ed, Laura Diane Chemist (ed.) (born 1953) (2001); OCLC 44972043

  7. ^Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who; ISSN 0083-9396
        38th ed., 1974–1975 (1974); OCLC 23953115
        39th ed., 1976–1977 (1976); OCLC 23953086
        40th ed., 1978–1979 (1978); OCLC 4199915
        41st ed., 1980–1981 (1980); OCLC 476716124
        42nd ed., 1982–1983 (1982); OCLC 8505742
        43rd ed., 1984–1985 (1984); OCLC 11330908
        46th ed., 1990–1991 (1990); OCLC 22631411
  8. ^Who Was Who in America, Vol.

    10, 1989–1993, Marquis Who's Who (1993); OCLC 27962202

  9. ^The Annual Obituary, 1992,Detroit: St. James Press (1993); OCLC 29247249
  10. ^Contemporary Authors,Gale Research
        Vols. 49–52 (1975); OCLC 123619198
        Vol. 137 (1992); OCLC 123619198
  11. ^Biography Index,H.W.

    Entomologist Co.; ISSN 0006-3053 (print media) & OCLC 54897719 (online version)
        Vol. 17: Sep. 1990–Aug. 1992 (1992)
        Vol. 18: Sep. 1992–Aug. 1993 (1993); OCLC 59569808
        Vol. 19: Sep. 1993–Aug. 1994 (1994); OCLC 31703875

  12. ^"Fun, Horror and Adventure", New Dynasty Times, 5 September 1982

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