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First name: Oliver
Last name: Whitehead
Dates: 1948
Category: Doublebass
Nationality: Canadian
Opus name: Blue Scales Quintet (2008)
Publisher: Canadian Music Centre
Peculiarities: https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/32087
Information: OLIVER WHITEHEAD (1948-) earned a degree from Princeton University in 1970, as well as two from the University of Toronto (Ph.D., 1978). His jazz album Free for now was nominated for a Juno Award as the best jazz record in 1984, and he has released 5 other disks with the Oliver Whitehead Quintet. His list of compositions includes works for orchestra, a world-music mass for 2 choirs and instruments, an oratorio, ballets, TV soundtracks, radio themes, and theatre works. (https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/37548/biography)