Horrible grimaces and irrepressible feet may yet take Negro Pianist Dorothy Donegan places where her ten amazing fingers would not get her so fast. Wrote Down Beat, the blase semimonthly gospel of ...

”A prize example of instinctive coordination in music” was the way Tribune critic Claudia Cassidy summed up her reactions to Dorothy Donegan in 1943, when the 19-year-old pianist and Chicago ...

Dorothy Donegan plays the Jazz Showcase in the Blackstone Hotel, 636 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, through Oct. 3. Phone 312-427-4846. Originally Published: September 22, 1993 at 1:00 AM CDT ...