Marian McPartland

Marian McPartland OBE
McPartland playing at St. Joseph's Villa near Rochester, New York, in 1975
Background information
Birth name	Margaret Marian Turner
Born	(1918-03-20)20 March 1918 Slough, England
Died	20 August 2013(2013-08-20) (aged 95) Port Washington, New York, US
Genres	Cool jazz, bebop, mainstream jazz, swing, post-bop
Occupation(s)	Pianist, composer, radio host, writer
Instrument	Piano
Years active	1938–2013
Labels	Halcyon, Concord Jazz, Jazz Alliance, Bainbridge, Savoy, Capitol, RCA

Margaret Marian McPartland OBE (née Turner;^[1] 20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English and American jazz pianist, composer, and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011.^[2]

After her marriage to trumpeter Jimmy McPartland in February 1945,^[3] she resided in the United States when not travelling throughout the world to perform. In 1969, she founded Halcyon Records, a recording company that issued albums for 10 years. In 2000, she was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. In 2004, she was given a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement. In 2007, she was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. Although known mostly for jazz, she composed other types of music as well, performing her own symphonic work A Portrait of Rachel Carson with the University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra in 2007. In 2010, she was named a member of the Order of the British Empire.