Search results for "John Lewis (pianist)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • in 1952 by Milt Jackson (vibraphone), John Lewis (piano, musical director ... strong musical personality of its leader, pianist John Lewis, the extraordinary ...
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  • * John Lewis, piano * Charles Mingus, bass * Thelonious Monk, piano * Fats Navarro, trumpet * Charlie Parker, alto sax * Chet Baker, trumpet ...
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  • 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. He is known ... He is believed to be the pianist on some recordings Jerry Newman made ...
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  • 26, 1984) was a prominent American jazz pianist and band leader. Like his ... Devils, and the following year became the pianist with the Bennie Moten band ...
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  • Sir Elton John, born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on March 25, 1947, is ... John has sold more than 250 million albums and over 100 million singles ...
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  • July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic ... court of Count Esterházy, was himself a pianist and cellist (he used to ...
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  • - Written Directly for the Screen). John Frankenheimer directed All ... by Tony Richardson, benefited from composer John Lewis's made-to-order ...
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  • Mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and her pianist-composer husband William ... to the great writers of the Motown era. John Lennon and Paul McCartney ...
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  • Selvin, Red Nichols, Isham Jones and Ted Lewis before forming his own band ... seemed done, Goodman unexpectedly asked pianist Jesse Stacy to play a solo ...
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  • learn the violin—she was a capable blues pianist, but kept this hidden from ... by Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan, and John Lewis. This began his collaboration ...
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  • was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. A key figure in the transition ... Penniman's piano-playing was partly inherited from pianist Eskew ...
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  • Stochelo Rosenberg; Biréli Lagrène; John Jorgenson; Michael Angelo ... include "Django," composed by John Lewis, which has become a ...
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  • Records after meeting legendary A&R man John Hammond. In the early 1960s ... Franklin joined Aaron Neville and Dr. John in performing the National ...
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  • He was also active as a librettist, poet, pianist, playwright, screenwriter ... Burgess was born John Burgess Wilson on February 25, 1917, in Harpurhey ...
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  • John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed ... Miles Davis and John Coltrane would then go on to make what is arguably ...
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  • Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born on August 3, 1926, at St. John ... Tony grew up with an older sister, Mary, and an older brother, John ...
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  • Toronto, Ontario. He was the only child of John Orme Plummer, who sold stocks ... he began studying to be a concert pianist, but developed a love for ...
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  • history. The innovative music and style of John Lennon (1940–1980), Paul ... In March of 1957, John Lennon formed a "skiffle" group called ...
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  • They had two sons: James, in 1959, and John, in 1961.Barbara Vancheri ... Costa Pittsburgh's Legendary Jazz Pianist. Retrieved December 15, 2018. ...
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  • Performers such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Robert Wilkins, Joe ... (Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis). Chicago boogie-woogie performers ...
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