HJR479 Summary

• Commends Dr. Tolton C. Rosser for outstanding contributions to music as a musician, conductor, and educator with international acclaim.

• Recognizes Rosser's performance as trumpeter with iconic Big Bands of the 1940s-1960s and his work with premier orchestras.

• Notes Rosser's education at Alabama A and M University where he led the University Band and organized the Jazz Orchestra, and his Ph.D. in Education from The University of Alabama.

• Honors Rosser's 1982 induction into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame and his three Band Director of the Year Awards from the Birmingham Grid Forecasters.

• Directs that a copy of this resolution be provided to Dr. Rosser as evidence of the esteem in which he is held by the people of Alabama.