Don Frye

Top 50 MMA milestones, Part III: GnP emerges 07/03/2009

This pianist began working as a professional jazzman while he was still a teenager. The year was 1919 and the bandleaders who were willing to potentially corrupt an adolescent were the brothers Cecil and Lloyd Scott. The pianist went off to New York City with this band in 1924--coincidentally, Frye had just turned 21 but it is not known whether the Scott brothers were waiting around for their ...more