Marian McPartland

Marian McPartland (born March 20, 1918, Slough, England—died August 20, 2013, Port Washington, New York, U.S.) was an English-born American jazz musician and radio personality, best known in the United States for her National Public Radio program Piano Jazz. McPartland began playing the piano when she was three years old. She attended private schools and studied classical music at the Guildhall School of Music in London. In 1938 she horrified her conservative parents by joining...