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<description>Hank O'Neal's blog is now up and running. His posts are varied, mostly dealing with jazz, photography and a wide assortment of fascinating people in many different fields, art, politics and literature. These posts are interesting, insightful and give an insider's perspective on the subject matter. Please have a look and tell your friends.</description>
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<title>John Lewis   May 3, 1920 – April 9, 2001</title>
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John Lewis was one of the most honored and important American pianists to emerge in the 1940s. He was highly respected as both a pianist and composer, but is certainly best know as the music director of the Modern Jazz Quartet from ]]></description>
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<title>Hooks Wiltse (Hooks and Snake)</title>
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Yesterday, May 8, 2010, the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox played a game at Fenway Park that celebrated the 107th anniversary of their first meeting on May 7, 1903. The Yankees won this time, but Boston won in 1903. And it ]]></description>
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<title>Jay McShann  January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006</title>
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Jay McShann, aboard the SS Norway at sea, December 19, 1991
 
The average piano keyboard is about four feet wide. When he was sitting at one, Hootie’s smile was usually about as wide. For a guy who was supposed to play the bl]]></description>
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<title>Willie The Lion Smith November 25, 1897 – April 18, 1973</title>
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Willie The Lion Smith, Manassas, Virginia, February 20, 1971
 
In 1967, when I first met Willie The Lion, he was he last of the legendary stride pianists who’d made Harlem the jazz piano capitol of the world in the 1920s and ]]></description>
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<title>Soprano Summit  (Kenny Davern and Bob Wilber)</title>
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Kenny Davern and Bob Wilber were among the finest musicians on their instruments and had been for years when I first met them in the early 1970s. In those days they were doubling, tripling or quadrupling on any and all instruments t]]></description>
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