by Bill Collins | Sep 24, 2015 | Museum
Along with the 2,200 albums Mark Taylor donated to our museum, there were two other major donations. His dad had been personal friends with Stan Kenton over the years, and had acquired the band crate and Stan’s personal music folder. These are great pieces of...
by Bill Collins | Sep 24, 2015 | Museum
When I started working on the museum in October of 2005, I only had a few records of my own to put in the museum. Soon, however, we acquired 3,400 records in two donations from two of my friends. Leonard Belota donated his entire record collection of about 1,200...
by Bill Collins | Sep 15, 2015 | General
William Alonzo Anderson, known as Cat Anderson (September 12, 1916-April 29, 1981), had a birthday two days ago. Cat became famous in the Duke Ellington Orchestra and was probably the best high note trumpet player in history. I’ll never forget hearing the...
by Bill Collins | Sep 14, 2015 | Boss Brass|Singers
http://youtu.be/lcGdUcaPPbo Mel Torme (September 13, 1925-June 5, 1999). Today would have been Mel Torme’s birthday. He is most famous for being a co-writer of “The Christmas Song”, which is my favorite Christmas song. He recorded with the Boss...
by Bill Collins | Sep 11, 2015 | Natalie Cole|Singers
http://youtu.be/aFV3tuH2iPM The picture is not the album cover these two tunes are from–I seem to have lost the cover. The title of the cd is “Unforgettable” and was recorded in 1991. It is one of my favorite albums in my collection. The tunes...
