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A local of Palo Alto, California, singer/songwriter Matt Simons’ initial taste of success came, ironically, in European countries. Trained in traditional and jazz and efficient on several instruments, Simons acquired moved to NY to ply his trade being a pop craftsman. His passionate, piano-led music were in the centre of …

Among the two great stride pianists (along with Ralph Sutton) to emerge through the 1940s when people of their era were generally performing bebop, Wellstood kept an open up mind toward afterwards designs (he loved Monk) even though sounding in his best performing classic jazz. A bit more refined than …