Avery Parrish (January 24, 1917, Birmingham, Alabama - December 1, 1959) was an American jazz pianist and songwriter. Birmingham (ˈbɝmɪŋhæm is the largest City in the US state of Alabama and is the County seat of Jefferson County. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States
Parrish studied at the Alabama State Teachers College, where he played in the Bama State Collegians, an ensemble led by Erskine Hawkins. The Bama State Collegians is a student jazz orchestra made up of students at Alabama State University. Erskine Ramsay Hawkins ( July 26, 1914 — November 11, 1993) was a Trumpet player and Big band leader from Birmingham He remained in Hawkins's employ until 1941 and recorded with him extensively. He wrote the music to "After Hours", and a 1940 recording of the tune with Hawkins's orchestra resulted in its becoming a jazz standard. A jazz standard is a Jazz tune that is held in continuing esteem and which is widely known performed and recorded among jazz musicians as part of the jazz musical repertoire
Parrish left Hawkins in 1941 and moved to California. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. He was involved in a bar fight in 1942 which left him paralyzed at age 24; he was unable to play music for the rest of his life. Paralysed redirects here For other uses see xx Paralysed (disambiguation Paralysis is the complete loss of Muscle function He worked outside of music until his death in 1959 of unknown causes.
Parrish was elected to the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame ( AJHoF) was founded in 1978 and opened a museum on September 18, 1993, with a mission " to foster encourage educate
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