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12/9/1936: Dedicated to you: Andy Kirk ; Twelve Clouds of Joy: instrumentalist, violin : Decca: 61542: 10-in. 1/21/1937: Honeysuckle rose: Count Basie Orchestra: instrumentalist, guitar : Decca: 61543: 10-in. 1/21/1937: Pennies from heaven: Count Basie Orchestra: instrumentalist, guitar : Decca: 61544: 10-in. 1/21/1937
During 1936 he served as vice-president of the American Federation of Teachers. Williams became the director of Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas, in 1937 and spent the next two years there. He also remained a member of the board of the STFU.
Williams was the first guitarist to record with the group after playing guitar with Count Basie in 1936. He was replaced by Freddie Green the following year. Williams was a member of the Four Shades of Rhythm, which included musicians from Chicago, Cleveland and Flint, MI. He worked with some of the most prominent musicians during the 1950s ...
In late 1936, Claude was caught by a group of planters, beaten and flogged, and sent out of eastern Arkansas with the warning that he would be lynched if he returned. In 1937, Claude, still deeply involved with field organizing of the STFU, was offered the directorship of Commonwealth College.
Williams's most acclaimed job was in Count Basie's band, and while with this group in 1936, he was noted as the number-one guitarist in New York by Down Beat magazine. By the time the magazine had published its poll, Williams had given up his guitar for the fiddle, which later earned him the nickname "Fiddler."
27. Apr. 2004 · In 1936 he preceded Freddie Green as Basie's first recorded guitarist and was voted Best Guitarist of the Year in a Downbeat national readers' poll. One of his early harmonic inspirations was...
Claude "Fiddler" Williams (February 22, 1908 – April 25, 2004) was an American jazz violinist and guitarist who recorded and performed into his 90s. He was the first guitarist to record with Count Basie and the first musician to be inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.
