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Obituary Dodo Marmarosa
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Dodo Marmarosa, jazz pianist
Born: 12 December, 1925, in Pittsburgh Died: 17 September, 2002,
in Pittsburgh, aged 76
MICHAEL "Dodo" Marmarosa was a reclusive personality who flitted
in and out of jazz history after making an initial but lasting impact
as one of the progenitors of bebop in the mid to late Forties.
He was said to have been a prodigiously gifted child at the piano
in his native Pittsburgh, where his school mates included the pianist
Errol Garner. He studied classical piano before turning to jazz. He
was given the rather unflattering nickname of Dodo because of his
large head ...
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