John Bunch obituary

American jazz pianist and Tony Bennett's musical directorThe American jazz critic George Simon once described John Bunch, who has died aged 88 of melanoma, as "the Fred Astaire of the piano". He was alluding to Bunch's rhythmic ease and fluency, the sense that his jazz improvisations were always nimble and elegantly formed. As Bunch's British manager Brian Peerless put it: "He just liked playing the piano." And play it he did, throughout a richly varied career that embraced bebop, big bands and ...

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