Gerald Wilson Dead At 96, Big Band Leader Played With Duke Ellington And Count Basie
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gerald Wilson, the dynamic jazz musician whose career spanned more than 75 years, has died. He was 96. Wilson’s son, Anthony Wilson, said his father died Monday at his Los Angeles home from pneumonia. The big band leader began his career in the 1930s as a trumpeter for Jimmy Lunceford’s band […]