Record ID:
57548792 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 83045066
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19220104
  • Kansas City (Mo.)
Death:
  • 20131030
  • Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Fields of activity:
  • Jazz
Occupations:
  • Flutist Saxophonist Arranger Jazz musician
See also:
Notes:
  • The Gene Ammons story: organ combos. [SR] p1977.
  • New Grove dict. of jazz (Wess, Frank (Wellington); b. Jan. 4, 1922, Kansas City, Mo.; flutist and tenor and alto saxophonist)
  • 678 field information, Nov. 5, 2013 (Jazz saxophonist/flutist/arranger)
  • New York times (online), viewed Nov. 5, 2013 (in obituary published Nov. 3: Frank Wess; b. Frank Wellington Wess, Jan. 4, 1922, Kansas City, Mo.; d. Wednesday [Oct. 30, 2013], Manhattan, aged 91; helped popularize the flute as a jazz instrument in the 1950s and '60s with the Count Basie Orchestra, where he was also a standout saxophone soloist)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)908578
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC PPi-MA DLC UPB DLC