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 ...lihat lebih banyakRay 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.lihat lebih sedikit