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Additional authors

1. Williams, Earl
2. Smith, Warren, 1934-
3. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
4. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project.

Description

1. 2 videodiscs (113 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. The oral history interview with Earl Williams begins with his childhood in Detroit, Michigan. He began studying drums at the age of 9. He studied at the Detroit Conservatory of Music and the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts. At age fourteen, Mr. Williams began playing professionally around Detroit. One of his first experiences was playing with Lester Young. A year after graduating from high school, Mr. Williams left Detroit to tour with his father's (Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams) big band. While with the band he played with such artists as Ruth Brown, Chuck Berry, Paul Anka, Frankie Avalon, Sam Cooke, and Big Joe Turner. After leaving his father's band and moving to New York, he joined pianist Eddie Heywood. He worked with the top artists of the day, eventually working as the house drummer at New York's famous Apollo Theatre. In the early 1970s he worked with Lena Horne, Diana Ross, Melba Moore, Freda Payne. Williams was very active as a studio musician in New York. He discusses the business aspects of being a jazz musician.

Subject

1. Turner, Joe, 1911-1985 > Influence
2. Moore, Melba dx Influence
3. Percussionists > United States > Interviews
4. Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 > Influence
5. Horne, Lena > Influence
6. Williams, Earl > Childhood and youth
7. Oral histories
8. Williams, Earl > Interviews
9. Interviews
10. Roach, Max, 1924-2007 > Influence
11. Ross, Diana, 1944- > Influence
12. African American musicians
13. Percussion music (Jazz)
14. Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 > Influence
15. Young, Lester, 1909-1959 > Influence
16. Jazz musicians > United States > Interviews
17. Tizol, Juan, 1900-1984 > Influence
18. Drummers (Musicians) > United States > Interviews
19. Moore, Melba > Influence

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Oral histories.

Call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1137

Note

1. Interviewer, Warren Smith.
2. The Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project was funded by the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc.

Credits (note)

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project.

Terms of use (note)

1. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.

Biography (note)

1. Earl Williams, a native of Detroit, Michigan, is a jazz drummer, publisher and teacher.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of: Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project.

Title

1. Oral history interview with Earl Williams.

Production

1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1994.

Country of producing entity

1. United States.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videodisc

Digital file characteristics

1. video file DVD

Credits

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project.

Event

1. Recorded July 13, 1994 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Terms of use

1. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.

Biography

1. Earl Williams, a native of Detroit, Michigan, is a jazz drummer, publisher and teacher.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of: Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Williams, Earl, interviewee.
2. Smith, Warren, 1934- interviewer.
3. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
4. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project.

Research call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1137
2. Sc Visual VRC-308 MII videotape