Gerald Wilson
Detroit
Price: $13.98
Product #: MAC1049
Release: September 29th, 2009
Wilson has written a musical sonnet to the city, where he spent five very important formative years in the late 1930s. Detroit’s progressive social policies made a huge impression on the young Wilson. “The city itself showed me so much,” Wilson insists. “All of the schools were integrated; so was the musician’s union. I had only known segregation before.” “Blues On Bell Isle,” written for a public park on the shore of Lake Michigan, was the site of many lovely days from Wilson’s youth.
