Eddie Finckel

Jazz composer and pianist Eddie Finckel gravitated to jazz when he was a young boy, growing up in Washington, D.C. Finckel picked up the piano by listening to solos by Teddy Wilson and Art Tatum. The young pianist started composing at an early age and, by the 1940s, held a position as staff arranger for the bands of Boyd Raeburn, Les Brown, and Gene Krupa. Working with drummer Buddy Rich, Finckel ...more