MARIAN MCPARTLAND
Genres: Post Bop, Swing, Bop, Hard Bop, Vocal Jazz, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Blues, Stride Piano, RnB, Ragtime, Dixieland, Bossa Nova • United Kingdom

Margaret Marian McPartland, OBE (née Turner;20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English-born jazz pianist, composer, and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 until 2011. Margaret Marian Turner was a musical prodigy from the time she could sit at the piano, about the age of three. She studied classical music and the violin, in addition to the piano. She pursued classical studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Much to the dismay of her family, she developed a love for American jazz and musicians such as Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, Mary Lou Williams, and many others. In 1938, despite her family's efforts to keep her at Guildhall, Marian left to join Billy Mayerl's Claviers, a four-piano vaudeville act, performing under the stage name of Marian Page. The group toured throughout Europe during World War read more...