Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Benjamin Wright.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Wright, Benjamin (Conductor)
• Brock, Paul, 1932-
• Cole, Harriette
• Hickey, Matthew
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (14 video files (6 hr., 21 min., 5 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Music director and conductor Benjamin Wright was born on July 11, 1946 in Greenville, Mississippi. Wright attended the Chicago Conservatory of Music and received his Ph.D. from the Pentecostal Bible College in Tuskegee, Alabama. After high school, Wright embarked on his first major musical tour with rhythm and blues icon Ted Taylor until he was drafted into the U.S. Air Force. After Wright's honorable discharge from the military, he worked for several years with Bobby Moore and the Rhythm Aces. In 1969, Wright worked for musical arrangers like Charles Stepney, Gene Barge, Donny Hathaway, and Richard Evans. In 1975, Wright moved to Los Angeles and became the musical director for The Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Aretha Franklin, and Barry White, and in 1979, he acted as the string arranger for Michael Jackson's solo album, Off the Wall. Wright did arrangements on Outkast and Justin Timberlake's Grammy-winning albums Speakerboxxx/The Love Below and Justified respectively.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Benjamin Wright
• Benjamin Wright

Subject

• Wright, Benjamin (Conductor) > Interviews
• African Americans > Interviews
• African Americans
• Music Arranger Music Director Conductor

Genre/Form

• Internet videos.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.
• Oral histories.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

OCLC

1003150512

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Benjamin Wright.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Playing Time

062105

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Performer

Paul Brock, interviewer.

Harriette Cole, interviewer.

Credits

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Event

Recorded Sun Valley, California 2007 April 18.

Recorded Sun Valley, California 2017 July 22.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Indexed Term

Music Arranger Music Director Conductor.

Added Author

Wright, Benjamin (Conductor), interviewee.

Brock, Paul, 1932- interviewer.

Cole, Harriette, interviewer.

Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.