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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

♪ 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 ...

There they are, seated side by side, each at a grand piano, a musical odd couple if there ever was one. Pop songwriter Burt Bacharach and jazz pianist Marian McPartland are obviously having a ball ...

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 ...

Over a career that spanned more than six decades, she became a fixture in the jazz world as a talented musician and well-loved radio personality.

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 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." ...