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First, balloon-shaped Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson faced each other across grand pianos. Then came Erroll Garner, and finally big Art Tatum, his almost sightless eyes turned to the wall. If Birdland, Manhattan's midtown mecca of jive, wanted to put on a representative "parade" of jazz pianists last week, it could hardly have found four ivory ticklers with more varying styles...
...intrinsically sad situation to load on every tear-provoking scene in their files. One good example is the shot of a blind soldier hearing a letter from his son; the boy was born while the soldier was at war. "I've never seen him," says the soldier, staring with sightless eyes. "And I never will...
Tristano, a Chicago boy, started improvising on the piano at four. His parents saw to it that he got formal lessons, but no one was impressed by Lennie's classical drill work, least of all Lennie. His eyes, weak at birth, became completely sightless after a bout with measles when he was ten. Lennie developed his musical ear in a school for the blind, graduated to Chicago's American Conservatory, where he took his B. Mus. "They thought my string quartet was 'refreshing,' " he says. "If they'd known it was really jazz, they...
...Pianist George Shearing went job-hunting two years ago on Manhattan's jazz-drenched 52nd Street, he had some impressive clippings to show. For six years he had been voted Britain's No. 1 jazz pianist. Like another successful British-born pianist, Alec Templeton, George had been sightless from birth. But at six he had begun music lessons at London's Linden Lodge School for the Blind, kept at the classics until he was 17, when he decided he could make his living at jazz...
...some vision. On Kenneth, who had none, an ophthalmologist operated to remove part of the fibrous tissue. He believed that it was not the retina, but that the retina was shriveled and displaced. By last week, Dennis Hoffmann's vision was-improving slowly, but Kenneth was still sightless...