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American musician
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North Carolina, U.S.A.
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50 years
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Don Kirkpatrick (June 17, 1905 - May 13, 1956) was an American jazz pianist and arranger.
Kirkpatrick worked intermittently with Chick Webb between 1927-1937 and with Don Redman from 1933-1937; it is for these associations that he is best known. Aside from this, he worked with Harry White, Elmer Snowden, Zutty Singleton, and Mezz Mezzrow, and worked as a freelance arranger after his time with Webb and Redman. Kirkpatrick also arranged for the bands of Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Cootie Williams.
After the swing era, Kirkpatrick played with Bunk Johnson (1947), Sidney Bechet (1951), Wilbur De Paris (1952–55), and Doc Cheatham (1955). He never led his own recording session. In 1956 he died at age 50 of complications from pneumonia.
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Famous American Pianists
These fingers of mine, they got brains in ’em. You don’t tell them what to do – they do it. –– Jerry Lee Lewis
Famous American Jazz Musicians
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. ― Louis Armstrong
Famous Jazz Musicians
What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order. ― Kurt Vonnegut
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