| LC control no. | n 86813479 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Foster, Frank, 1928-2011 |
| Birth date | 1928-09-21 |
| Death date | 2011-07-26 |
| Place of birth | Cincinnati (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Chesapeake (Va.) |
| Affiliation | Count Basie Orchestra |
| Profession or occupation | Saxophonists Jazz musicians Composers Arrangers (Musicians) |
| Found in | nuc86-22862: His In defense of be-bop [MI] 1979 (hdg. on NN rept.: Foster, Frank Benjamin, 1928- ; usage: Frank Foster) His Frankly speaking [SR] p1985: label (Frank Foster) container (tenor and soprano saxophones) Grove music online, Mar. 3, 2006: Jazz (Foster, Frank (Benjamin, III); b. Sept. 23, 1928, Cincinnati; American tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer) New York times WWW site, July 27, 2011 (in obituary published July 26: Frank Foster; b. Frank Benjamin Foster III, Sept. 21, 1928, Cincinnati; d. Tuesday [July 26, 2011], Chesapeake, Va., aged 82; saxophonist, composer, and arranger who helped shape the sound of the Count Basie Orchestra during its popular heyday in the 1950s and '60s and later led expressive large and small groups of his own) |
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