Music Appreciation
Born on March 20, 1918, Margaret Marian McPartland was an English-American jazz pianist, composer and writer. At an early age, Marian learned how to play the piano by ear. In 1935, she was then accepted to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She became a concert pianist and then developed an appreciation for American jazz music.
During World War II, Marian joined the United Services Organization (USO), where she then met Jimmy McPartland at a jam session in Belgium. After the war, Jimmy and Marian moved to Chicago, then Manhattan.
In the early 1950s, Marian started her trio and then McPartland, Crow, and Morello. In 1958, she was among a group picture of 57 notable jazz musicians.
She then began reviewing jazz and blues albums for Down Beat magazine, in the late 1960s. She was then the host of the Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011.
Marian has received many recognition and awards such as the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2000, the Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2004, and inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2007.
She passed away on August 20, 2013.
via roger bridgland
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_McPartland
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