MUSIC INDUSTRY: Milt Buckner: Block Chords Parade

When pianist Billy Taylor asked fellow keyboard legendA George Shearing in 1984 how he developed the "Shearing Sound," Shearing said he sandwiched the styles of two different musicians. Recalled Shearing: "When I came back to the States [in late 1947], I went to all of the big talent agencies. They seemed determined to make another Alec Templeton out of me. But I didn't want to do what I had already done. [Audiences] didn't need the English Art Tatum, or the English Fats Waller, or the English T...

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