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Gordon Charles Watson was born in Parkes, New South Wales in 1921. He served with the Australian Imperial Force for four years in World War II. [1]He studied piano under Laurence Godfrey Smith in Sydney, and later had advanced studies at Mills College, Oakland, California with Egon Petri (piano), [2] [3] [4] and Darius Milhaud (composition).
Charles Blackwell was born in Leytonstone, Essex, on 20 May 1940. [2] His parents separated when he was young and he was sent to live with his grandparents, where he found solace in his grandmother's old upright piano and began picking out tunes. [3]
Gladys Mills (née Jordan; 29 August 1918 – 24 February 1978), [1] known as Mrs. Mills, was an English pianist who was active in the 1960s and 1970s, and who released many records. Her repertoire included many sing-along and party tunes made popular in the music hall, generally in a stride piano technique, often in a tack piano style. [2]
1960 1960: PJL 2005 Trio, with Scott LaFaro (bass), Pete La Roca (drums) 1963 The Country and Western Sound of Jazz Pianos: Dauntless 1963 With Toshiko Akiyoshi (piano, cello), Barry Galbraith (guitar), David Izenzon and John Neves (bass), Pete La Roca (drums) [5] 1966 Three Waves: Contact 1966 Trio, with Steve Swallow (bass), Pete La Roca ...
His mother, Pollie, [1] was his first piano teacher, [4] after he began playing aged six or seven in Los Angeles. [2] [5] He took organ lessons, sang in choirs and tried the violin and trombone. [2] Around the age of 11, once he could read music, Hicks started playing the piano in church. [6]
Dorothy Taubman (August 16, 1917 – April 3, 2013) [1] [2] was an American music teacher, lecturer, and founder of the Taubman Institute of Piano. [3] She developed the "Taubman Approach" to piano playing , though her approach provoked controversy.
Mom's house had been the center of gatherings for relatives and friends who enjoyed her Italian cooking of manicottis, chicken cutlets and baked goods and then convened around her restored 1936 ...
Cliburn's mother, a piano teacher and an accomplished pianist in her own right, discovered him playing at age three, mimicking one of her students, and arranged for him to start taking lessons. [2] Cliburn developed a rich, round tone and a singing-voice-like phrasing, having been taught from the start to sing each piece. [ 2 ]