DAVIS, WILLIAM STRETHEN

DAVIS, WILLIAM STRETHEN (WILD BILL). Jazz organist (24 November 1918 in Glasgow, Missouri). He played piano and guitar as a child. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Parsons, Kansas; at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama (1937-39); and at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas (B. A.). His first professional experience was with Milt Larkin in Houston, Texas, as arranger-guitarist (1940). He then moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he played with and arranged for various groups and for...