Marl Young

Marl Young, ( 29 Jan 1917, Bluefield, Virginia, USA - 29 April 2009, Los Angeles, California) was an American musician and arranger who was instrumental in the merger of the all-black and all-white musicians unions in Los Angeles in the early 1950s . He later became the first black music director of a major network television series, "Here's Lucy", starring Lucille Ball.

See also

• West Coast jazz

References

• Marl Young dies at 92; Pianist was key in desegregating L.A. musicians unions LA Times 3 May 2009
• Musician Marl Young dies at 92 Variety, May 5, 2009,
• Johnson, Steve (5 May 2009). "LUCY & THE MASTERFUL MUSICIAN Marl Young recalls working with Lucy". Film Score. Retrieved 5 July 2014. 

• Steven Isoardi, Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles 1998, University of California Press. ISBN 0520220986

External links

• Interview of Marl Young, part of Central Avenue Sounds Oral History Project, Center for Oral History Research, UCLA Library Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.