Harry South

The Harry South Songbook

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 13, 2017

Harry South is virtually unknown in the States today, but in the U.K. and throughout much of Europe, he was a highly regarded English jazz pianist, composer and arranger. South began his career in the early 1950s and remained active until 1990, when he died in March of that year. Interestingly, many of his small-group recording sessions in the 1950s had a West Coast jazz feel while the big bands he led tended to have an swinging East Coast feel. ...
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