Marian McPartland
Marian McPartland (born March 20, 1918), born Margaret Marian Turner in Slough, England, is a jazz pianist, composer, writer and host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio. The jazz critic Scott Yanow has said that McPartland is "... a harmonically sophisticated improviser, open to the influence of later stylists including Bill Evans."[2]Marian McPartland was a musical prodigy from the time she could sit at the piano, about the age of three. Marian studied classical music, a ...
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