Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
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- Bachelors Jazz Studies Juilliard School
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew was an American-Danish jazz pianist. Biography Drew was born in New York City, United States, and received piano lessons from the age of five. He attended the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan. Drew's first recording, in 1950, was with Howard McGhee, and over the next two years he worked in bands led by Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker, among others. After a brief period with his own trio in California, Drew returned to New York, playing with Dinah Washington, Johnny Griffin, Buddy Rich, and several others over the following few years. He led many recording sessions throughout the 1950s, and in 1957 appeared on John Coltrane's album, Blue Train.
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