Patricia Willard

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Patricia Willard (* 1928 ) is an American jazz author, historian, producer and photographer who also excelled as a Duke Ellington expert.

Patricia Willard is a member of the American Jazz Journalists Association and has worked as an editor for jazz magazines such as Down Beat , Jazz and Jazz & Pop, as a columnist and editor for JazzTimes . She also worked for oral history projects in the jazz program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Smithsonian Institute and the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University and interviewed musicians and contemporary witnesses such as Barney Bigard and Lawrence Brown in the 1970s , Skitch Henderson , Herbie Jones , Helen Oakley Dance , John Simmons Juan Tizol and Lee Young . She also appeared in the documentary Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story (2014, directed by NC Heikin).

Willard has also written reviews, liner notes and biographical articles for The Oxford Companion to Jazz and has made photographic contributions to Rolling Stone , The Village Voice , Billboard , The Los Angeles Times , Herald-Examiner and Daily News, The Antioch Review, Library of Congress Performing Arts Annuals and other publications. She has also served as historical advisor to the Duke Ellington Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History , the Jazz and Popular Music Department at the Library of Congress, and the National Endowment for the Arts music program . In later years she continued to be active as an Ellington researcher, co-editor of work editions and consultant; in particular, she dealt with the connection of Ellington's music to dance. In 2018 she received the Jazz Journalists Association's Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism award for her life's work in jazz journalism .

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  1. ↑ Note at worldcat.org
  2. ^ What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years by Ricky Riccardi, 2011, p. 316
  3. ↑ The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington , edited by Edward Green, Evan Spring. 2015, p. 119
  4. ^ Obituary in the New York Times (2001)
  5. ^ The New York Times Biographical Service, Volume 32, New York Times & Arno Press, 2001
  6. ^ Joel Dinerstein: Swinging the machine: modernity, technology, and African American culture between the World Wars . University of Massachusetts Press, 2003
  7. ↑ Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900–1939: Bomba Beats to Latin Jazz by Basilio Serrano, 2015
  8. ↑ A Lester Young reader . ed. by Lewis Porter , Smithsonian Institution Press, Nov. 1, 1991
  9. ↑ Patricia Willard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  10. ^ Oxford University Press 2005
  11. ↑ JJA Jazz Awards 2018 at Jazzthing
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SURNAME Willard, Patricia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1928