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...each other." What evolved was Hines's "trumpet style"-a left hand that cushioned, a right hand that attacked. In one swoop, he freed the piano from the ricky-tick niceties of ragtime and set a standard that ever since has influenced jazz pianists, notably Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum and Erroll Garner...
...endorsement was issued by Edward L. Tatum of the Rockefeller Institute, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1953. Copies were mailed to approximately 50 living American recipients for signature...
...Apollo Theater, but he won so often that he was eventually barred from the show. He was playing stride piano?a single note on the first and third beats of the bar, a chord on the second and fourth. Unable to play with the rococo wizardry of Art Tatum or Teddy Wilson, though, he found a way of his own. His small hands and his unusual harmonic sense made his style unique...
...First!" A leathery blocking back at Minnesota in the late '30s, Wilkinson arrived at Oklahoma in 1946 as an assistant to Head Coach Jim Tatum, inherited the top job a year later when Tatum left for Maryland. It was hardly a plum: over the years, the Sooners had regularly clobbered patsies like Kingfisher College (179-0), just as regularly taken their lumps from the likes of Texas (7-40). "You know what we were before we started winning football games?" asks a Wilkinson admirer. "The Grapes of Wrath. That was all anybody thought of us. Bud changed all that...
...Hickory House and a spot at the Newport Jazz Festival) is a tardy reward for a quietly brilliant career. He grew up in Algiers and first heard jazz when the G.I. radio followed soon after the American landings. For years he struggled to play precisely like Art Tatum, but when he came to Paris in 1950, he took off on his own. "I should try to make music that has much to say," he resolved, and with that he started serious study...