23.02.2017  Legend of American jazz Bill Sakston visited NovSU philologists

On February 21, a legend of the American jazz Bill Sakston met with students and faculty members of NovSU Faculty of Philology in the Center of the Creative Intellectuals of V. Soroka in Antonovo.

Bill Sakston was born and grew up in New York in Harlem. He graduated from conservatory of New England in Boston in the State of Massachusetts on a class of the jazz and appeared among of great jazz musicians such as Clark Terry, Franck Foster, Roy Haynes, Jackie McLean and Nancey Williams. They supported him very much and promoted his professional growth, they were his teachers and friends throughout his professional career. Within 30 years, Bill had been having the luck to play with the best jazz musicians, and went on tour as in the USA and around the world. He played in Duke Ellington and Count Basie's orchestra, acted with many other great jazz musicians. Bill Sakston is the only Afro-American who was born and grew up in Harlem and became the owner of jazz club named “Jazz Place” in New York. His name was immortalized in the Museum of the Jazz in Harlem, he is called a alive legend and the king of the jazz.

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