Gaetano Albert Lombardo was born in London, Ontario, in 1902. He formed the Royal Canadians with his brothers Carmen, Lebert, and Victor, as well as other musicians from his hometown, and in 1924 took a two-year residency at a Cleveland nightclub, the Claremont Tent. This was followed by a 33-year residency at Manhattan’s Roosevelt Grill […]
Read MoreLegendary jazz pianist Marian McPartland was born Margaret Marian Turner in 1918 near Buckinghamshire, England. A musical prodigy, McPartland studied classical music and, in addition to her piano studies, mastered the violin. She pursued classical studies at the Guildhall School of Music in London and left to join The Claviers, a four-piano vaudeville act, performing […]
Read MoreA longtime Queens resident, Eddie Palmieri has a musical career that spans over 50 years as a bandleader of both salsa and Latin jazz orchestras. Born in Spanish Harlem in 1936, Palmieri began piano studies at an early age, as did his celebrated older brother, the late salsa legend and pianist Charlie Palmieri. At age […]
Read MorePat DeRosa was born in Brooklyn, NY on December 6, 1921. At the age of 12, his mother took him to a music store on the Bowery to buy his first saxophone and from that point forward, music took over his life. The 1930s brought the DeRosa family to Huntington, Long Island where a lack […]
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