Paris after World War II was awash in jazz pianists. Many of them were raised in musical families. Others studied music in school. They were in Paris for two reasons: That's where the clubs were and that's where the French record companies were based. The list of excellent French jazz pianists in the late 1940s and '50s is extensive and includes Bernard…
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