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Wendell Logan was born on 24 November, 1940 in Thomson, Georgia, is an American musician. Discover Wendell Logan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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69 years old |
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Sagittarius |
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24 November, 1940 |
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24 November |
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Thomson, Georgia |
Date of death |
15 June, 2010 |
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Cleveland, Ohio |
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Georgia
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Wendell Logan Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Wendell Logan worth at the age of 69 years old? Wendell Logan’s income source is mostly from being a successful musician. He is from Georgia. We have estimated Wendell Logan's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Wendell Morris Logan (November 24, 1940 – June 15, 2010), was an American jazz and concert music composer who created the jazz department at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Wendell Logan was born in Thomson, Georgia on November 24, 1940.
His first musical studies were with his father, an amateur alto saxophonist.
He graduated with a bachelor's degree in music in 1962 from the historically black Florida A&M University, which he had attended on a football scholarship.
At Florida A&M in 1962, Logan heard Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite for the first time.
This initial exposure to the twelve-tone technique led Logan to undertake a path leading to a career as a composer.
He earned a master's degree in music in 1964 from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and was awarded a Ph.D. in music theory and composition in 1968 from the University of Iowa.
After graduating from college, Logan served on the faculties of Ball State University, Florida A&M University and Western Illinois University, before joining the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1973, where he eventually become chairman of the jazz studies department and professor of African-American music.
When Logan first arrived at Oberlin, jazz was exclusively an extracurricular activity.
Dr. Logan began teaching jazz music shortly after joining Oberlin, forming the Oberlin Jazz Ensemble in 1973.
Logan developed a curriculum for a jazz major in 1989, and by 1991 he helped modify Oberlin's admission standards to allow students to be selected for admission to the conservatory based on their talent as jazz performers.
In addition to playing soprano saxophone and trumpet, Logan composed both jazz and concert music.
Among his concert works are the 1989 "Runagate, Runagate" based on a poem by Robert Hayden about a fugitive slave and "Doxology Opera: The Doxy Canticles" in 2001 which features a libretto by Paul Carter Harrison.
Logan's music has been recorded on Orion Records and other labels.
Logan believed that being described as a "black composer" was a two-edged sword.
He would have preferred music by African-American composers to simply be performed alongside works by other composers.
Regarding that distinction, he remarked: "No one is asking for a special day: 'Here's the day for black American composers.' That's kind of demeaning. But it's better than nothing".
On his Oberlin College profile, Logan described jazz as "our classical music" and said that it "belongs here just as much as Americans belong on this soil."
He was selected for a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991.
A resident of Oberlin, Ohio, Logan died in Cleveland at age 69 on June 15, 2010, after suffering a short illness.
He was survived by his wife, the former Bettye Reese, as well as by a daughter, a son and four grandchildren.