Peter Batten reflects on the passing a Great Briton…

Earlier this year I wrote about the great jazz pianist Marian McPartland. Originally from the UK, she had a great career in the United States. Sadly it was announced recently that she has died, aged 96.

Marian’s career really took off in the 1950s. She led her own trio at the Hickory House, a famous jazz bar in New York, and made the first of a series of recordings which were admired all over the world.
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