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John Hicks - 30% match to Don Shirley

12 December 1941, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, d. 10 May 2006. Hicks began playing and studying piano while still a very small child, taking piano lessons from his mother. The family lived in Los Angeles, then in St. Louis, and he later attended Lincoln University in Missouri and the Berklee College Of Music. In the early 60s he went to New York where he became a member of Art Bla Read more

Bill Easley - 22% match to Don Shirley

Hazel Scott - 19% match to Don Shirley

Hazel Dorothy Scott, 11 June 1920, Port of Spain, Trinidad, d. 2 October 1981, New York City, New York, USA. Scott was brought up and educated in New York where she studied classical piano. Later, she turned to jazz and began earning a living in the city’s nightclubs. She became very popular and played at Café Society, a favourite haunt of the in-crowd. She had h Read more

Papa John DeFrancesco - 19% match to Don Shirley

Laszlo Gardony - 17% match to Don Shirley

Dick Wellstood - 16% match to Don Shirley

Richard MacQueen Wellstood, 25 November 1927, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, d. 24 July 1987, Palo Alto, California, USA. After learning to play piano in his home town, Wellstood came to New York City in 1946 and was soon working with able musicians such as newcomer Bob Wilber and veteran Sidney Bechet. In the early 50s he visited Europe with Jimmy Archey’s band, but divi Read more

Emile Pandolfi - 16% match to Don Shirley

Gene Bertoncini - 15% match to Don Shirley

Eric Reed - 12% match to Don Shirley

Eric Scott Reed, 21 June 1970, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Pianist Reed began his life in music when he was two years old with an interest in the drums. He gravitated to the piano and began formal lessons at five, eventually studying with influential teacher Vernon Lathon. Memorable influences at this time included the music that Reed heard in church, including pianists Read more

George Colligan - 12% match to Don Shirley

29 December 1969, Summit, New Jersey, USA. Colligan was raised in a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended Peabody Conservatory of Music. He had taken up the trumpet at the age of nine and his major at the conservatory was Classical Trumpet and Music Education. From his earliest days at school, his teachers had actively encouraged him to listen to jazz and as a res Read more

Mark Elf - 11% match to Don Shirley