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Thomas Robert Talbert (August 4, 1924 Crystal Bay, Minnesota – July 2, 2005 Los Angeles) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and band leader.〔Bruce Talbot, ''Tom Talbert – His Life and Times: Voices From a Vanished World of Jazz'', Scarecrow Press (2004) ISBN 0810848120 ISBN 9780810848122 〕 ==Biography== 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. When rock and roll eclipsed jazz in popularity, he moved to his parents' home in Minnesota in 1960, tried his hand at cattle ranching in Wisconsin, before eventually moving back to Los Angeles and a musical career in 1975. In addition to composing for TV and movie studios, he became involved in music education,〔 and set up a foundation to help talented young musicians, with one of the first recipients (in 1996) being Maria Schneider. He died July 2, 2005.〔Obituary: ''Talbert, Tom; 80; Los Angeles,'' Star Tribune (Minneapolis), July 10, 2005 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Talbert」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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