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Teddy Wilson

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Marc Myers
Aug 13, 2007
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I'm off to Boston again today on a 6 am flight but wanted to share with you a passage I read last night from an essay appraisal of Teddy Wilson. The liquid prose is from the late jazz critic Whitney Balliett:

"Teddy Wilson's style has changed little since 1935. At first, it was a mixture of what he admired in Earl Hines and Art Tatum. But he quickly work…

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