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Today in Jazz: A Pianist is Born
Pianist Carl Perkins was born on this day in 1928 in Indianapolis, IN. Tweet
Today in Jazz: Parisian Love
Trumpeter Clifford Brown and drummer Max Roach record “Parisian Thoroughfare”, 1954. Indianapolis born pianist, Carl Perkins performed with an early version of the Max Roach-Clifford Brown quartet and appears on The Best of Max Roach and Clifford Brown, a live … Continue reading
Today in Jazz
Three pianists born – Bill Evans, 1929 in Plainfield, NJ., Mal Waldron, 1925 in New York, N.Y., and Carl Perkins, 1928 in Indianapolis, IN. Tweet