found: Criss, S. Warm and Sonny [SR] p1976:container (Buddy Collette, tenor sax and flute)
found: OCLC #15148159(hdg.: Collette, Buddy, 1921- )
found: Buddy Collette Big Band. Buddy Collette Big Band [SR] p2000:container (William "Buddy" Collette) insert (Buddy Collette; William Marcell "Buddy" Collette; b. Aug. 6, 1921, Los Angeles; saxophonist, composer, arranger, educator, jazz historian)
found: Los Angeles times WWW site, Sept. 21, 2010(Buddy Collette; b. William Marcel Collette, Aug. 6, 1921, Los Angeles; d. there Sunday [Sept. 19, 2010], aged 89; Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist, flautist, bandleader, and educator who played important roles in Los Angeles jazz as a musician and an advocate for the rights of African American musicians)
found: African American National Biography, accessed December 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Collette, Buddy; William Marcell Collette; bandleader, composer, music educator, saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist; born 06 August 1921in Los Angeles, California, United States; gained exposure to Hollywood films the Ginger Rogers Vehicles Kitty Foyle (1940), and Tom, Dick, and Harry (1941), You'll Never Get Rich (1941); jazz pedagogue for Eric Dolphy, Sonny Criss, and Charles Lloyd (1950s); first recordings in Man of Many Parts (1956), Nice Day with Buddy Collette (1957), The Swinging Shepherds (1959); first woodwind player in influential quintet with Chico Hamilton (1955); soloist in bands backing Frank Sinatra (1957); featured at the San Remo Festival in Italy rising to popularity in Europe (1961); regular on The Danny Kaye Show, The Carol Burnett Show, Trapper John, M.D. (1970's); taught at California State University at Los Angeles (1972-1976); died 19 September 2010 in Los Angeles, California, United States)
