Bill Leslie
William C. "Bill" Leslie (born 1925 in Media ; † June 21, 2003 in West Rockhill Township , Bucks County , Pennsylvania ) was an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , saxello ).
Live and act
Leslie attended Media High School and trained as an electrician when World War II broke out. He did his military service from 1943 in the US Army in Fort George G. Meade . He was discharged from the army in 1944 because of an eye disease and attended the Landis School of Music in West Philadelphia until 1948 . He began his professional musician career in the late 1940s; for the following decade he was a member of Louis Jordan 's band , with whom he appeared in clubs in Las Vegas, the Apollo Theater in Harlem and Smalls' Paradise, as well as on the television show Your Hit Parade .
In the 1960s he played on recordings by Larry Young ( Groove Street ), Thornel Schwartz ( Soul Cookin ' ), in Sweden with Don Gardner , Dee Dee Ford and Freda Payne . At Argo Records , he presented Diggin 'the Chicks , his only album under his own name, in 1962 , on which Ben Tucker , Art Taylor , Thornel Schwartz and Tommy Flanagan participated. In the field of jazz he was involved in five recording sessions between 1962 and 1965. In the late 1960s, he led an organ trio. In the early 1980s, Leslie was the first chairman of the Philadelphia Clef Club , a jazz club on 13th Street and Washington Avenue. In later years he was a church musician in Sellersville , performing Duke Ellington's Sacred Music .
Web links
- Bill Leslie at Allmusic (English)
- Bill Leslie at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ obituary in Philly.com
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 13, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leslie, Bill |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leslie, William C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (tenor saxophone, saxello) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Media |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 2003 |
| Place of death | West Rockhill Township , Bucks County , Pennsylvania |