Reminiscences of Milton Hinton : oral history, 1971.

Biographical Note

Musician.

Scope and Contents

Family migration from Mississippi to Chicago; training as a violinist and bassist, interest in classical music; social conditions for black musicians in Chicago, 1920s and 1930s: segregation, black musicians' union, organized crime; emergence of new jazz style, late 1920s national tours with Cab Calloway; conditions in New York City and Chicago compared.

Subjects

• African Americans--Segregation.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• Hinton, Milt.
• Interviews.
• Jazz.
• Jazz musicians--Interviews.
• Lax, John, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories.

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