LEE, WILLIAM JAMES

LEE, WILLIAM JAMES (BILL). Jazz bassist (23 July 1928 in Snow Hill, Alabama). He came from a musical family: his father played cornet/trumpet, his mother was a concert singer, and his brother Clifton (Cliff) and sisters Consuela and Grace became professional musicians. When he was eight years old he played drums in a family band; at the age of eleven he studied flute. He obtained his musical education at the local Snow Hill Institute, which was founded by his maternal...