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Ray Bisso
Ray Bisso was born in Wakefield, Mass., educated at Holy Cross College, spent three and one-half years with a U.S.Army Swing Band in the Pacific. He was leader of the Memphis Bold ...view moreRay Bisso was born in Wakefield, Mass., educated at Holy Cross College, spent three and one-half years with a U.S.Army Swing Band in the Pacific. He was leader of the Memphis Bold Jazzband in California, owner of a jazz club, worked as an advertising manager for Knight Ridder Newspapers. He has a degree in English from UCLA and the Alice Underkoffer Award for Poetry from Los Angeles Harbor College. In 1998 he published his narrative jazz poem, Buddy Bolden of New Orleans. A novel,Swing Band, was published in 2000 and another novel, Ad Man, appeared in the same year. Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver, a book of two biographical poems published in 2001.view less