![]() In 1944, he joined the Johnny Holmes band, one of the most famous in Canada. ![]() Art Tatum crossed his path and given his musical memory, he was able to retain the complexity of Tatum's pieces and have the ability to reproduce it with absolute and remarkable fidelity. His childhood was surrounded by music: father and his two older brothers played the piano and the organ, and he started playing the trumpet until tuberculosis advised him to give up wind instruments.Īt fourteen, he won his first amateur piano contest and thereafter he studied the piano of Teddy Wilson, his first major influence. His prodigious instrumental capacity and the extraordinary development of a particular concept of the trio, are enough arguments to verify the capacity and quality of a musician who has achieved with the 88 keys of the piano, an expressive force, a rhythmic power, and a sense of absolutely extraordinary blues. Johnson, give a pianist with enough personal traits to be considered a separate case. ![]() It is evident that in addition to that, plus the influences of Hank Jones, George Shearing and James P. Oscar Peterson is something more than a pianist synthesis between Art Tatum and Bud Powell, as many biographies classify him.
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