Professions: Toured the country as the youngest member of the Benny Carter Band in the 1940s; authored the well-received and controversial biography of Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington and his World (2001); established a career in mental health; trained and taught at Harvard, Boston University and Simmons College; served as assistant to the commissioner of mental health for Massachusetts; was well known in and around greater Boston for his expertise on and devotion to civil rights and to the health and well being of urban black families.
Passions: Sailing, Civil War history.
Degrees: HBS class of 1945.
Death: August 17, 2006 at his home in Cambridge, MA.
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