Biography
William Russell
Real name: Russell William Wagner
US American violinist, avant-garde composer, jazz-record engineer and producer, deeply interested in percussion, accompanist to a touring puppet troupe, musical-instrument repairman, archivist and writer, New Orleans jazz collector and the first curator of the Archive of New Orleans Jazz at Tulane University.B. February 26, 1905, Canton, MO.
D. August 9, 1992, New Orleans, LA.