Today (March 20, 2018) would have been English/American Jazz pianist Marian McPartland's 100th Birthday.
Her career highlights included (according to Wikipedia):
- Married trumpeter Jim McPartland (1945)
- Wrote for Down Beat magazine (started 1949)
- Singed her first record deal (1951)
- Worked with Benny Goodman (1963)
- Co-founded Halcyon Records (1969)
- Host of Piano Jazz on National Public Radio (1978 to 2011)
- Published All in Good Time, a book of essays (1987)
- Down Beat Lifetime Achievement Award (1994)
- Named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master (2000)
- Inducted into National Radio Hall of Fame (2007)
- Lifetime Achievement Grammy (2014)
- Named to the Order of the British Empire (2010)
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