Milt Buckner
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Discography:
Milt Buckner had a duple career. As a pianist, he largely invented the “locked hands” style (analogue chords) that was adoptive by many other players including George Shearing and Oscar Peterson. And as an organist, he was i of the top pre-Jimmy Smith stylists, serving to popularize the instrument. The younger brother of altoist Ted Buckner (world Health Organization played with Jimmie Lunceford), Milt Buckner grew up in Detroit and gigged locally, in addition to transcription for McKinney’s Cotton Pickers in 1934. He came to renown as pianist and arranger with Lionel Hampton (1941-1948, 1950-1952, and now and then in by and by geezerhood) where he was a crowd pleaser. During 1948-1950, Buckner light-emitting diode his own bands and, afterwards 1952, he broadly speaking played organ with trios or quartets. In afterwards long time, he sometimes teamed up with Illinois Jacquet or Jo Jones. Buckner recorded many dates as a leader, peculiarly for Black & Blue in the seventies. Share and save this post: del.icio.us Digg Furl Reddit Help |
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