WILLIE THOMAS
Jazz Education / Post Bop • United States
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Willie Thomas’ started in Orlando, Florida playing his horn at ten years old. His professional career spans forty-five years of performing with such jazz greats as the Woody Herman Orchestra, the Al Belletto Sextet, the Slide Hampton Octet with Freddie Hubbard and George Coleman, the MJT+3 with Frank Strozier and Bob Cranshaw, singer Peggy Lee and many more.
In addition to his international performances, residencies, educational clinics and jazz research, Willie was active with the International Association of Jazz Educators and was inducted into the IAJE Hall of Fame in 1994. His “Jazz Anyone” classroom series, now published by Alfred Music, is still used in schools throughout the country.
Willie now lives on a small island in the Pacific Northwest with his family. And at 86 years old, he still puts that horn to his lips everyday. He loved getting back into the action with the Jazz Everyone site. Once a teacher
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