[TPIN] Billy Horner 1st black "cross-over" classical tpt

[Glenn Bengry]

I'm getting ready to put online some historical information about the first 
black trumpeter to break the race barrier in classical music.  The barriers 
were very high and very numerous.  My old teacher William "Billy" Horner 
blazed some significant trails and deserves much wider recognition.  I'm 
hoping to post some biographical information some pictures and a soundbite 
of me playing a tune at my Memorial Recital for Billy.  Some of my fine 
listmates(Wilmer Wise, and Alan Wallace have given me some priceless 
assistance as have some great musicians from all over the country(Joe 
Wilder, Frank Kaderabek,Charles Burrell, Gerald Henderson and others I won't 
mention now).  All of that to follow.  I will probably need some help from 
you computer experts as to how to upload audio and video and get it to 
places where it can be appropriately accessed by all those interested.

If you have a soft spot for this kind of topic and have some computer 
expertise, could you email me off list and/or by phone 763 443 9156.

I may include video of the stories and tributes by those people in Detroit 
who attended the Memorial Recital.   I'm hoping that some of you may have 
your own personal remembrances of contact with Billy or second hand stories 
that you could write down, do audio recording or video recording and get 
them to me somehow.  Pass the word along.  A lot of guys in their 70's and 
80's were friends and contemporaries of Billy such as Snooky Young, Clark 
Terry, Gerald Henderson, Sy Oliver, all of whom played in a segregated Navy 
band with Billy in 1942.  Countless others are out there that I don't know 
about.  Perhaps the trumpet community will  bring out a whole wealth of 
stuff that otherwise wouldn't come out.  Thanks in advance to all of you who 
can help with this effort.


Glenn


>From: Michael Anderson <manderson at okcu.edu>
>To: Phil Landsberg <fivee at tx.rr.com>, <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
>Subject: Re: [TPIN] Black and white on the same band
>Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:08:42 -0600
>
>
>Lots of great musicians broke the color barriers in times and places where
>it was difficult.. Here are some good examples off the top of my head -
>
>Red Rodney with Charlie Parker
>The Benny Goodman Sextet at Carnegie Hall
>Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden
>Jim Chapin who played drums in NYC with all the great black BeBoppers
>Miles and Gil Evans
>Jimmie Rodgers - country superstar who used black musicians in the studio
>and was one of the first white country artists to incorporate blues styles
>into his music.
>Booker T and the MG's, mixed-race backup band for all the great Stax 
>Records
>Soul singers like Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding
>
>There are many more I'm sure.
>
>MA
>
> > From: Phil Landsberg <fivee at tx.rr.com>
> > Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 20:13:33 -0600
> > To: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
> > Subject: [TPIN] Black and white on the same band
> >
> > Lou Obergh has told me that in the early 40's he and Miles were in the 
>Lucky
> > Thompson band together.
> > Lou is white.
>
>
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