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- JAZZ PIANISTS BY REGION* - Name Birthday / Birthplace Final Age Quick Note by region Vince Guaraldi 7/17/1928 San Francisco, CA 47 Dave Brubeck 12/6/1920 Concord, CA 91 Hampton Hawes 11/13/1928 Los Angeles, CA 48 Scott Joplin 11/24/1868 Texarkana, TX or Linden, TX 48 Cedar Walton 1/17/1934 Dallas, TX 79 Red Garland 5/13/1923 Dallas, TX 60 Teddy Wilson 11/24/1912 Austin, TX 73 Hank Jones 7/31/1918 Vicksburg, MS 91 Jelly Roll Morton 9/20/1885 New Orleans, LA 55 John Beasley 10/10/1958 Shreveport, LA Mulgrew Miller 8/13/1955 Greenwood, MS 57 Andrew Hill 6/30/1931 Chicago, IL 75 Fred Hersch 10/21/1955 Cincinnati, OH Barry Harris 12/15/1929 Detroit, MI 91 Tadd Dameron 2/21/1917 Cleveland, OH 48 Tommy Flanagan 3/16/1930 Detroit, MI 71 Art Tatum 10/13/1909 Toledo, OH 47 Lennie Tristano 3/19/1919 Chicago, IL 59 Phineas Newborn Jr. 12/14/1931 Whiteville, TN 57 Herbie Hancock 4/12/1940 Chicago, IL John Lewis 5/3/1920 La Grange, IL 80 Kenny Barron 6/9/1943 Philadelphia, PA Keith Jarrett 5/8/1945 Allentown, PA Ahmad Jamal 7/2/1930 Pittsburgh, PA 92 Mary Lou Williams 5/8/1910 Atlanta, GA 71 Sonny Clark 7/21/1931 Herminie, PA 31 Billy Taylor 7/24/1921 Greenville, NC 89 Count Basie 8/21/1904 Red Bank, NJ 79 James P. Johnson 2/1/1894 New Brunswick, NJ 61 Erroll Garner 6/15/1921 Pittsburgh, PA 55 Thelonious Monk 10/10/1917 Rocky Mount, NC 64 Al Haig 7/19/1922 Newart, New Jersey 60 Brad Mehldau 8/23/1970 Jacksonville, FL Earl Hines 12/28/1903 Duquesne, PA 79 Bobby Timmons 12/19/1935 Philadelphia, PA 38 McCoy Tyner 12/11/1938 Philadelphia, PA 81 Bill Evans 8/16/1929 Plainfield, NJ 51 Duke Jordan 4/1/1922 Brooklyn, NY 84 Cecil Taylor 3/25/1929 Long Island City, NY 89 Frank Vincent 4/10/1938 Falconer, Chautauqua County, NY 76 Wynton Kelly 12/2/1931 New York City, NY 39 Willie Smith 11/3/1893 Goshen, NY 79 Fats Waller 5/21/1904 New York City, NY 39 Walter Bishop, Jr. 10/4/1927 New York City, NY 70 Chick Corea 6/12/1941 Chelsea, MA 79 Bud Powell 9/27/1924 Harlem, New York City, NY 41 Horace Silver 9/2/1928 Norwalk, CT 85 Kenny Drew 8/28/1928 New York, NY 63 Oscar Peterson 8/15/1925 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 82 John Taylor 9/25/1942 Manchester, England 72 Marian McPartland 3/20/1918 Slough, England 95 Joe Zawinul 7/7/1932 Vienna, Austria 75 Michel Petrucciani 12/28/1962 Orange, Vaucluse, France 36 Paul Bley 11/10/1932 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 83 * Regions: 1 - California 2 - Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona 3 - Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico 4 - North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas 5 - Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisana, Mississippi 6 - Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama 7 - New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida 8 - Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, NYC 9 - Canada, England, Austria, France

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