Artist: Milt Buckner
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Collection (Boogie Woogie)
Year:
Tracks: 1
Milt Buckner had a duple career. As a pianist, he largely invented the "locked men" style (parallel chords) that was adoptive by many other players including George III Shearing and Academy Award Peterson. And as an organist, he was i of the top pre-Jimmy Ian Smith stylists, helping to popularise the cat's-paw.
The younger chum of alto saxophonist Ted Buckner (earth Health Governance played with Jimmie Lunceford), Milt Buckner grew up in Motown and gigged topically, in addition to transcription for McKinney's Cotton plant Pickers in 1934. He came to celebrity as pianist and arranger with Lionel Lionel Hampton (1941-1948, 1950-1952, and like a shot and then in by and by years) where he was a crowd pleaser. During 1948-1950, Buckner light-emitting semiconductor diode his have bands and, afterwards 1952, he broadly speech production played pipe organ with trios or quartets. In subsequently long time, he sometimes teamed up with Illinois Jacquet or Jo John Paul Jones. Buckner recorded many dates as a leader, peculiarly for Shirley Temple Black & Amobarbital sodium in the seventies.
