Milt Buckner | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Milton Brent Buckner |
| Born | July 10, 1915 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | July 27, 1977 (aged 62) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, Hammond B3 organ[1] |
| Years active | 1930s–1975 |
Milton Brent Buckner (July 10, 1915 – July 27, 1977)[2] was an American jazz pianist and organist, who in the early 1950s popularized the Hammond organ.[3] He pioneered the parallel chords style[4] that influenced Red Garland, George Shearing, Bill Evans, and Oscar Peterson. Buckner's brother, Ted Buckner, was a jazz saxophonist.
- ^ [1] Archived July 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 359. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ^ Arwulf Arwulf, Milt Buckner biography, All Music.
- ^ Feather, Leonard, & Ira Gitler (2007). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press.