Griff Williams (musician)
Griff Williams (born 1911, La Grande, Oregon - died February 1959, Chicago) was an American dance bandleader and pianist. Williams led a college band at Stanford University in the early 1930s and was a member of the Anson Weeks Orchestra in 1932. Soon after he formed his own group in San Francisco, which included Buddy Moreno as a vocalist, and had its first major engagement at the supper club Edgewater Beach Hotel in October 1933. He toured throughout the United States in the 1930s before relocating to Chicago for another engagement at the Stevens Hotel, where he worked from 1939 through about 1944.
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Griff Williams (musician)
Griff Williams (born 1911, La Grande, Oregon - died February 1959, Chicago) was an American dance bandleader and pianist. Williams led a college band at Stanford University in the early 1930s and was a member of the Anson Weeks Orchestra in 1932. Soon after he formed his own group in San Francisco, which included Buddy Moreno as a vocalist, and had its first major engagement at the supper club Edgewater Beach Hotel in October 1933. He toured throughout the United States in the 1930s before relocating to Chicago for another engagement at the Stevens Hotel, where he worked from 1939 through about 1944.
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