McPartland, who turns 95 next March, came to the United States in the 1940s after marrying jazz cornetist Jimmy McPartland.She spent decades paying her musical dues but gained her greatest renown ...

In the 1980s, she and Jimmy McPartland decided “our divorce was a failure,” and they began to share a house on New York’s Long Island. They had no children together.

Jimmy McPartland said he began playing jazz while in high school in Chicago: "We got the instruments through my father, who used to teach music — he sold them to my friends very cheaply." ...

Jimmy McPartland, a brilliant cornetist and a critical link to the birth of Chicago jazz in the Roaring `20s, died early Wednesday, two days short of his 84th birthday. Mr.

Jimmy McPartland (James Dugald McPartland) was an American cornetist and one of the originators of Chicago Jazz. McPartland worked with Eddie Condon, Art Hodes, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, Jack ...

♪ In Belgium, she met Jimmy McPartland, a Dixieland cornet player from Chicago who was 11 years her senior. ♪ The two musicians fell in love, and in 1945, they were married at a military base ...

When Jimmy McPartland strolls onto the stage of Mandell Hall Saturday night, he will probably be thinking back to his fledgling days as a Chicago jazz artist-nearly 70 years ago.It was the dawn of ...

Marian McPartland, 89, has just finished playing the standard “These Foolish Things,” so jazz singer Rebecca Parris serves her a compliment. “Marian, you made me cry,” she says. “From ...

Marian McPartland performs during a celebration of her 90th birthday in New York in 2008. McPartland, 95, the legendary jazz pianist and host of the National Public Radio show “Piano Jazz ...

Jimmy McPartland On Piano Jazz Revisit this 1990 episode featuring the legendary cornetist as he teams up with his wife, host Marian McPartland, to perform "St. James Infirmary." ...

Jimmy McPartland said he began playing jazz while in high school in Chicago: "We got the instruments through my father, who used to teach music — he sold them to my friends very cheaply." ...