Former music professor championed jazz studies at UI
By Paul Wood
Thursday August 3, 2006
The News Gazette
John Garvey, shown in this 1969 photo, died July 18. The music professor emeritus was 85.
A classical musician who went on to create the University of Illinois Jazz Band, John Garvey embraced Russian folk music and Balinese gamelan in his several lives.
The music professor emeritus died July 18 at age 85 in Maryland.
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