Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watters learned about jazz secondhand. When he was born in Santa Cruz, Calif, in 1911, Pianist Jelly Roll Morton was ragtiming the opera Martha up & down the Mississippi; Bunk Johnson was playing his cornet in Storyville's famous Eagle Band and teaching his eleven-year-old "boy Louis" (Armstrong) to blow his first blues. Bull-necked Lu Watters was less than 11 when he blew his first trumpet...
...with Bunk Johnson. Banjoist Henry Mordecai once played guitar, caught the jazz fever and bought three riverboat banjos so he could switch from one to another when his ferocious strumming broke the strings. Drummer Bill Dart has fingers like crowbars, drums almost exclusively on wood blocks and a washboard. Pianist Wally Rose, a man with a solid beat, also plays Bach and Chopin...
Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The blind pianist kids contemporaries, swings symphonies, tames jive...
...checks RCA-Victor has ever issued. It put him in a class with some of Victor's all-time moneymakers: Caruso, Alma Gluck and Marian Anderson. Added to his Hollywood salary of about $100,000 a picture, and an annual income of $200,000 from concerts, it established Pianist Iturbi in the financial big league in music...
Married. Sonya Stokowski, 24,* actress daughter of Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his first wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff Stokowski; and Flight Lieut. Willem Thorbecke, 24, Royal Netherlands Air Force pilot who flew with the R.A.F., son of The Netherlands prewar minister to China; both for the first time; in Manhattan...