High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Talbert (1924-2005) was an US jazz pianist, composer and band leader.He was born on August 4, 1924, in Crystal Bay, Minnesota, and grew up listening to big band music on the radio.He got started as a band leader when he was drafted in the Army in 1943, becoming composer for a military band at Fort Ord, California, performing for War Bond drives throughout California.In the late 1940s, he led his own big band on the West Coast, much of his work foreshadowing what became known as West Coast jazz before moving to New York in the early 1950s after being denied a recording contract in LA. In 1956, he recorded two records that would become his best known works, Wednesday's Child and Bix Duke Fats, gaining him fleeting fame.

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