St. Louis Blues
Originally by Prince's Band
Released on St. Louis Blues (1934)
- Real name
- Reginald Foresythe
- Born
- May 28, 1907
- Died
- December 28, 1958
- Country
- United Kingdom
- IPI
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00010529426 1 work
00160529190 3 works
- Affiliation
- PRS
- Comments
- British jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader. Foresythe played piano from age eight and worked in the second half of the 1920s as a pianist and accordionist in dance bands in Paris, Australia, Hawaii, and California. He also wrote music for films by D.W. Griffith among others and played in Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders. In 1930 Foresythe moved to Chicago. He spent much of his career on the dance band scene in Britain later serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II and working as an accompanist to vocalists and a solo pianist in London in the 1950s.
- Member of
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The Six Keyboard Kings
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