The Musicians’ Green Book – An Enduring Legacy
Cast & ContributorsThe Musical Performers
Participants
who shared their memories and storiesH.B. Barnum toured with James Brown and Otis Redding, was the music director for the Temptations, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Aretha Franklin and Barry White, and has written arrangements and compositions for many artists including Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake.
The Washington director for the Urban League, Courtland Cox was active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and is a long-time social advocate based in Washington D.C.
Rick Lee is the now retired owner
of Lee’s Flower Shop, a mainstay on U Street in Washington DC since 1945.
Rev. Dr. Sandra Butler-Truesdale, who worked with Ray Charles and James Brown, is a music historian from Washington DC and co-hosts the Don’t Forget the Blues radio series on WPFW.
Benjamin Wright is a legendary record producer, song writer and arranger who was also a child actor in the 1940s, a singer with the Dootones and the Robins, and an arranger for, among others, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, the Supremes and Aretha Franklin.