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29 de may. de 1989 · Phineas Newborn Jr., a leading jazz pianist, died Friday at his home in Memphis. He was 57 years old. The cause of his death was not disclosed. Irvin Salky, Mr. Newborn's agent and friend,...
Phineas Newborn Jr. (December 14, 1931 – May 26, 1989) was an American jazz pianist, whose principal influences were Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and Bud Powell.
Phineas Newborn, Jr. (14 de diciembre de 1931, Whiteville, Tennessee-26 de mayo de 1989, Memphis, Tennessee) fue un pianista estadounidense de jazz. El crítico de jazz Leonard Feather le consideró uno de los tres pianistas de jazz más importantes de todos los tiempos, junto a Bud Powell y Art Tatum. [1]
28 de may. de 1989 · Phineas Newborn Jr., a leading jazz pianist, died at his home in Memphis, Tenn., Friday. He was 57 years old. The cause of death has not been released. Irvin Salky, Mr. Newborn's agent and...
Newborn suffered from an unnamed mental illness through much of his life and spent time in the 1960s in Camarillo State Mental Hospital, which also treated jazz icon Charlie Parker. After his discharge, Newborn continued to record.
28 de may. de 1989 · Phineas Newborn Jr., a celebrated jazz pianist widely praised for his flamboyant technique, died Friday in a Memphis hospital.
21 de nov. de 2023 · He recorded splendid albums—and this is surely one of them—but was also forced into periods of inactivity by apparent mental health issues. By the early to mid '60s, there was a sense that Newborn was a has-been, relegated to the status of "oh, him." He suffered an early death, at 56, and one wonders just what demons tormented him.
