KAY, ULYSSES SIMPSON

KAY, ULYSSES SIMPSON. Composer (7 January 1917 in Tucson, Arizona). He came from a musical family: his father sang about the house, his mother played piano and sang in a church choir, and his maternal uncle, Joseph (King) Oliver , was a celebrated jazzman. He began piano study at the age of six, violin study at ten, and saxophone study at twelve. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Tucson, Arizona, where he sang in school glee clubs and...