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Eugene Williams (jazz critic)

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Eugene's father, Joseph Williams (1879–1934), died when he was 16. His mother, Anna Freid (maiden; 1885–1940), died when he was 21. He had only one sibling, a sister, Josephine Williams (1915–1983), who had been married to Joseph Akibba Turitz (1905–1956).
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Nels Robert Nelson; 1923–1996) wrote in 1985 that Adelman was among the greatest jazz photographers in the world. In 1990, Nelson wrote that renowned jazz photographer "
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was, at the time, one of the three oldest literary societies in America. Williams received the prose prize for his essay, "The Elements of Jazz". The other recipient,
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Orlake Records was a label founded by Orlake, a subsidiary of plastics company Movilex Ltd. when they opened their first pressing plant in Dagenham, Essex in 1964.
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In June 1938, as a senior at Columbia, Williams was one of two recipients to win the Philolexian Prize for excellence in prose and poetry. The
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Vol. 2: 9th of 16 articles – "New Orleans Today," by Eugene Williams & Julius "Skippy" Adelman (photographer)
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Production: Welch (album cover); Eugene Williams (recording engineer & producer); Eugene Williams (
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Eugene Williams (1918–1948) – see a short biographical note on Gene Williams (1918-1948) in
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ranks second only to the elusive Skippy Adelman in his capacity for capturing the moment."
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Vol. 1: 9th of 10 articles – "New Orleans Today," by Eugene Williams &
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by George S. Rosenthal and Frank Zachary), reviewed by C. Sumner Spalding
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compiled and edited by Mike Hazeldine, Jazzology Press (1993), p. 170;
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May 10, 1948, at Fresh Pond Crematory and Columbarium, located in
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Frank Zaharija; 1914–2015) (eds.) (© 21 January 1946; Jazzways,
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The Swedish Bunk Johnson Society, No. 7, Spring 1996, p. 8;
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Nels Robert Nelson; 1923–1996) was a jazz columnist for the
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George Sigmund Rosenthal (1922–1967) & Frank Zachary
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Walter Louis Decou; 1896–1966) (piano); Edgar Mosley (
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Index

Jazz Information
Bunk Johnson
Manhattan, New York
Columbia College, Columbia University
Philolexian Society
Ralph Toledano
Philolexian Society
Jacques Barzun
Ralph Gleason
Rolling Stone
CC
Ralph de Toledano
Barry Ulanov
CC
Metronome Magazine
Manhattan
cremated
Middle Village, New York
Omer Simeon
Edmond Hall
transcript
Cincinnati
Skippy Adelman
Bernice Abbott
Cincinnati
OCLC
10396118
367353290
839356128
979896906

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