DIXON, WILLIAM ROBERT (BILL
). Jazz trumpeter/College professor ( in Nantucket, Massachusetts). He came from a musical family: his mother was a blues singer. His family moved to New York when he was a child. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of New York, at Boston [Massachusetts] University, and at the Hartnett School of Music (1946-51). He began trumpet study when he was eighteen years old. After service in the United States Armed Forces (1944-46),...