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Mel Powell (born Melvin Epstein, February 12, 1923 in the Bronx, New York City – April 24, 1998 in Sherman Oaks, California) was a jazz pianist and composer of classical music. Events 1429 - English Forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York Events 1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Sherman Oaks is an 81-square-mile district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles California. A pianist (/'piənɪst/ is a Musician who plays the Piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces play with an ensemble or Orchestra A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to mainstream music produced in or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and Secular music

Powell was born to Russian Jewish parents and began playing piano as a child, and performed jazz professionally in New York City as a teenager. 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 In 1941-42 he played, composed, and arranged for Benny Goodman. In Music, an arrangement refers either to a rewriting of a piece of existing Music with additional new material or to a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch such A member of Glenn Miller's Army Air Corps Band in 1943-45, he played with Django Reinhardt in Paris at war's end. Alton Glenn Miller ( March 1 1904 &ndash presumably December 15 1944) was an American Jazz musician and Jean "Django" Reinhardt ( January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Belgian Gypsy jazz Guitarist Powell briefly returned to Goodman's band, then worked in Hollywood after World War II and married actress Martha Scott. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Martha Ellen Scott ( September 22, 1912 – May 28, 2003) was an American actress In 1948 he played himself in the movie "A Song Is Born" as the jazz pianist working with Benny Goodman. In this movie he worked along with many other famous jazz players including Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong (August 4 1901 &ndash July 6 1971 nicknamed Satchmo or Sachimo and Pops, was an American Jazz Trumpeter After studying at Yale with Paul Hindemith in 1948-1952 he all but gave up jazz for classical composition. Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 &ndash 28 December 1963 was a German Composer, Violist, violinist teacher music theorist and conductor. He was a member of the composition faculty at Yale from 1958 to 1969, a founder of the Yale Electronic Music Studio and a founding editor of Perspectives of New Music. In 1969 he moved to California to serve as founding dean of the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia California, a suburb of Los Angeles California. After serving as acting head of the Institute he was awarded the Roy O. Disney Professorship of music, and taught and composed at CalArts until his death. In 1990 he received the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his concerto for two pianos and orchestra, Duplicates.

In 1987 he returned to jazz to play a jazz festival on the cruise ship SS Norway with Benny Carter, Howard Alden, Milt Hinton, and Louie Bellson. Characteristics The SS France was the French Line Flagship from 1961 to 1974 combining regular Transatlantic crossings - six days and nights - with Bennett Lester Carter (born August 8, 1907 in Harlem New York; died July 12, 2003 in Los Angeles California) was Howard Alden (born) is an American Jazz Guitarist born in Newport Beach California. Milt Hinton born Milton John Hilton ( Vicksburg, Mississippi, June 23, 1910; d Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni (born 6 July 1924) better known by the Stage name Louie Bellson (his own preferred spelling One performance has been documented on the CD release "The Return of Mel Powell" (Chiaroscuro records). This CD includes twenty minutes of Powell discussing his life and his reasons for leaving jazz.

His notable students include Justin Connolly, Brian Fennelly, Walter Hekster, Arturo Marquez, Cesar Mateus, Lewis Spratlan, Lois V Vierk, and Sally Lamb. Justin Connolly (born London, 1933 is a British composer and teacher Walter Hekster (born March 29, 1937 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch Composer, Clarinetist and conductor of Classical Arturo Márquez (born 1950 is a renowned Mexican Composer of orchestra music who is well known for using musical forms and styles of his native Mexico and incorporating Lewis Spratlan (b 1940 Miami United States is an American composer of Contemporary classical music. Lois V Vierk (born August 4, 1951, Hammond Indiana) is a "

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