• Jack Wilson (August 3, 1936 – October 5, 2007) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Wilson was born in Chicago on August 3, 1936, moving to Fort...
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  • Jack Wilson (28 September 1907 – 12 January 2006) was a British jazz pianist. Born in Warwickshire, England, he was perhaps better known as bandleader...
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  • jazz pianist from Warwickshire, England Jackie Wilson (1934–1984), American soul and R&B singer Jack Wilson (jazz pianist) (1936–2007), American jazz...
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  • Easterly Winds (category Jack Wilson (jazz pianist) albums)
    Easterly Winds is a 1968 album by American jazz pianist Jack Wilson featuring performances recorded in 1967 and released on the Blue Note label. The Allmusic...
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  • Something Personal (category Jack Wilson (jazz pianist) albums)
    Something Personal is an album by American jazz pianist Jack Wilson featuring performances recorded and released on the Blue Note label in 1967. The Allmusic...
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  • The Jack Wilson Quartet featuring Roy Ayers is an album by American jazz pianist Jack Wilson recorded for the Atlantic label and released in 1963. AllMusic...
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  • Song for My Daughter (category Jack Wilson (jazz pianist) albums)
    Song for My Daughter is an album by American jazz pianist Jack Wilson featuring performances recorded in 1968 and 1969 and released on the Blue Note label...
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  • The Two Sides of Jack Wilson is an album by American jazz pianist Jack Wilson recorded for the Atlantic label and released in 1964. The album title refers...
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  • Ricci, "Your Favorite Living Jazz Pianists", All About Jazz, November 24, 2022. List of the readers' top 200 living jazz pianists. Kennedy, Gary W. (2002)...
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    A jazz trio is a group of three jazz musicians, often a piano trio comprising a pianist, a double bass player and a drummer. Jazz trios are commonly named...
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  • Jack Palmer (May 29, 1899 – March 17, 1976) was an American pianist and composer. He is best known for co-writing two jazz standards with Spencer Williams:...
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  • Blossom Dearie (category 20th-century American women pianists)
    Blossom Dearie (April 28, 1924 – February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist. She had a recognizably light and girlish voice. Dearie performed...
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  • – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 12 January – Jack Wilson, jazz pianist, 98 8 February – Elton Dean, saxophonist (Soft Machine), 60 (liver...
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    pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr. and saxophonist Irvin Reason. His closest childhood friend was trumpeter Booker Little. As a teenager Lloyd played jazz with...
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    Mary Lou Williams (category African-American jazz pianists)
    (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements...
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  • Goodman hired pianist Teddy Wilson, vibraphonist Lionel Hampton and guitarist Charlie Christian to join small groups. In the 1930s, Kansas City Jazz as exemplified...
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    Oscar Peterson (category Canadian jazz pianists)
    December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Considered a virtuoso and one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more...
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    Bill Evans (category American jazz pianists)
    William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His use...
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    Luis Perdomo (born February 19, 1971, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator. Perdomo's first paying gig was at age 12. From...
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    Also in 1948, Louis Armstrong formed the first version of the Jazz All Stars with Jack Teagarden on trombone, Barney Bigard on clarinet, Dick Carey on...
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    George Shearing (category American jazz pianists)
    (13 August 1919 – 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records...
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    American jazz pianist, composer, and shamisen player (born 1955). 7 – Clint Houston, American upright bassist (born 1946). 12 – Bruno Martino, Italian jazz composer...
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  • Christopher Columbus is an American jazz song composed by Chu Berry with lyrics by Andy Razaf. Pianist Fats Waller turned the tune into a 1936 novelty...
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    Dick Hyman (category American jazz pianists)
    (born March 8, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Over a 70-year career, he has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director,...
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    Billy Taylor (redirect from Jazz Alive!)
    Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished...
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    Earl Hines (category African-American jazz pianists)
    22, 1983), was an American jazz pianist and bandleader. He was one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano and, according to one...
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    died of ALS in 1979. Jazz pianist McCoy Tyner was one of the few remaining jazz musicians to reject the electric style of jazz fusion, with the former...
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    Jack Gregg is an American jazz bass player. He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, where he started playing the bass at the age of 15. In 1961 he joined the...
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  • Jack Leroy Petersen (born October 25, 1933) is an American jazz guitarist and educator. He was a pedagogical architect for jazz guitar and jazz improvisation...
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  • (born 1914). October 18 – Jack Bland, American banjoist and guitarist (born 1899). November 9 – Jan Johansson, Swedish pianist (born 1931). 23 – Reinhold...
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