NANCE, WILLIS

NANCE, WILLIS (RAY). Jazz trumpeter (10 December 1913 in Chicago, Illinois; 28 January 1976 in New York, New York). He studied piano as a child and began violin study at the age of nine. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Chicago, including Wendell Phillips High School, where he came under the tutelage of N. Clark Smith ; at Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee; and at Chicago Musical College, where he studied with Max Fishel. In high school he...