Oklahoma Musicians

Jazz history

Oscar Pettiford

Independent sources document Pettiford's Okmulgee birth, family band, early regional touring, transition to bass, and major roles in swing and bebop. Local Oklahoma history and public-radio archival material connect his Oklahoma origins to a career with Charlie Barnet, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, and his own ensembles.

Oklahoma connection

High: archival and local-history sources place his birth in Okmulgee and document the Pettiford family band in Oklahoma and the region.

Hall of Fame account

The Hall catalog lists Oscar Pettiford as a Bassist/Cellist inducted in 1995.

Sources

  1. codytranscripts.apmcdn.org/production/85878f2af5b2365041347dfa1445ffa2.pdf;
  2. etypeproductionstorage1.blob.core.windows.net/$web/Production_Prod/Jobs/52/2021-02-11/130628/PreProcessedPDF/okgt_128142_prep_20210211134954693.pdf;
  3. www.downbeat.com/digitaledition/2015/DB1511/_art/DB1511.pdf
  4. www.okjazz.org/inductees/

Related source accounts

These records use the same display name in different source contexts. They remain separate accounts.