LC control no. | n 2015022180 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Jeffrey, Paul, 1933-2015 |
Birth date | 19330408 |
Death date | 20150320 |
Place of birth | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
Place of death | Durham (N.C.) |
Field of activity | Jazz |
Affiliation | Duke University Rutgers University Hartt College of Music |
Profession or occupation | Saxophonists Jazz musicians Conductors (Music) Arrangers (Musicians) Music teachers College teachers |
Special note | Formerly on undifferentiated name record: n 79105477 |
Found in | Me, myself an eye, 1979: container (Paul Jeffrey, conductor) New York times (online), viewed Apr. 9, 2015 (in obituary published Apr. 8: Paul Jeffrey; b. Paul Henley Jeffrey, Apr. 8, 1933, Manhattan; d. Mar. 20, Durham, N.C., aged 81; saxophonist who was a mainstay of the great pianist and composer Thelonious Monk's last working group and later a prominent jazz educator; also had a long association with bassist and composer Charles Mingus; was a member of a big band Mingus led in 1972 and worked with him regularly from 1977 until shortly before Mingus's death in 1979, writing arrangements as well as playing saxophone; director of jazz studies at Duke University from 1983 until his retirement in 2003; had previously taught at Hartt College in Hartford and at Rutgers University) |
Associated language | eng |
Invalid LCCN | n 79105477 |