MILT BUCKNER
Nos place traer aquí a MILTON BUCKNER, un pianista de los grandes muy aficionado al Boogie-Woogie era además compositor de grandes piezas del género como las que os ponemos a continuación, un verdadero goce y disfrute para todos los amantes del piano y tambien del órgano Hammond por el cual Mr. Milt tenía una especial debilidad , siendo uno de sus mayores difusores a nivel popular ! Please Enjoy it !!
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Milton Brent "Milt" Buckner (10 July 1915 – 27 July 1977) was an American jazz pianist and organist, who in the early 1950s popularized the Hammond organ.He pioneered the parallel chords style that influenced Red Garland, George Shearing, Bill Evans, and Oscar Peterson. Buckner's brother, Ted Buckner, was a jazz saxophonist.
Milton Brent Buckner was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His parents encouraged him to learn to play piano, but they both died when he was nine years old. Milt and his younger brother were sent to Detroit where they were adopted by members of the Earl Walton band: trombonist John Tobias, drummer George Robinson (Milt) and reedplayer Fred Kewley (Ted). Buckner studied piano for three years from the age 10, then at 15 began writing arrangements for the band, he and his brother going on to become active in the Detroit jazz world in the 1930s
Buckner first played in Detroit with the McKinney Cotton Pickers and then with Cab Calloway. In 1941 he joined Lionel Hampton's big band, and for the next seven years served as its pianist and staff arranger. He led a short-lived big band of his own for two years, but then returned to Hampton's in 1950. In 1952 he formed his own trio, pioneered the use of the electric Hammond organ.. He often played in Europe in the late 1960s. His last studio session took place in Paris on 4 July 1977
Buckner died in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 62.
Milt Buckner, inventor of the famous 'locked hands' style of playing piano - a method of using both hands to play parallel chord patterns.
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