CLAUDE WILLIAMS
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Few great jazz musicians enjoyed such a lengthy life and career as Claude "Fiddler" Williams, who outlasted virtually all his contemporaries and achieved his greatest successes at an advanced age. Williams began playing guitar at age ten; he was inspired to take up violin after hearing Joe Venuti play a gig near his Muskogee, OK, home. He played around Oklahoma with bassist Oscar Pettiford, among others. His first professional experience came in 1927 when he joined Terrence Holder's highly regarded territory band in Oklahoma City. Williams stayed on after Holder was ousted by his sidemen because of bad management and was replaced by bassist Andy Kirk. The band became known as the Clouds of Joy (also the Dark Clouds of Joy, 12 Clouds of Joy, Original 11 Clouds of Joy, etc.) and enjoyed a great deal of success, due in no small part to the performing and composing talents of
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