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Saturday,
February 10 at 3 p.m. – Gulf Coast Blues: The Clarence Williams Story
(Rochester, NY)–Gulf Coast Blues: The Clarence Williams Story airs Saturday, February 10 at 3 p.m. on AM 1370.
Born in the Mississippi Delta in the late 1890s, pianist Clarence Williams was Creole and Choctaw Indian. As an adult, he produced and performed on thousands of recordings with artists who became legends — Bessie Smith, Fats Waller, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong and more. But he took credit for composing a long list of jazz standards.
Hosted by David Holt and starring The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guests Vernel Bagneris and Topsy Chapman, Gulf Coast Blues: The Clarence Williams Story chronicles Williams' life with all of its contradictions. Was he a prolific composer or just a hustler and occasional song thief? Gulf Coast Blues reveals that, like the story of New Orleans itself, Clarence Williams is a study in opposites.
For more information, visit www.publicbroadcasting.net/pri/.artsmain.
Pictured: Clarence Williams
Photo Credit: © Copyright 1988-2006 Murray L. Pfeffer. All Rights Reserved.
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