MARIAN MCPARTLAND 

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36. Marian McPartland
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45. Bessie Smith
46. Carol Sudhalter
47. Sarah Vaughn
48. Dinah Washington
49. Ethel Waters
50. Mary Lou Williams

PIANO JAZZ - NPR

Born in 1920, in Windsor, England 

• Pianist and composer

• First job in New York on 52nd Street, in 1952

• Parents disapproved because she was involved in "the bad life".

• Two-weeks at the Hickory House lasted a year and all of the greats came to hear her, Benny Goodman and Dizzy Gillespie

• 1971, she formed her own record company, Halyceon Records

•  Worked for an extensive time at Cafe Carlyle

• “Piano Jazz” radio show on National Public Radio, since 1970

• Public Broadcasting System 13-series Women in Jazz program.

• Guest of national symphonies