Joe Albany

Joe Albany

Joseph Albani (b. January 24, 1924 in Atlantic City, New Jersey d. January 11, 1988 in New York: Known as "Joe Albany") was a jazz pianist. It is remarked on his being among the few white pianists to have played Bebop with Charlie Parker.

He had studied piano as a child and by 1943 he was working on the West Coast in Benny Carter's orchestra. In 1946 he was playing with Parker and also Miles Davis. He continued for a few years afterward and was on an album by Warne Marsh album in 1958. Despite that most of the 1950s and 1960s saw him battling a heroin addiction or living in seclusion in Europe. He also had several unsuccessful marriages in the period. He returned to jazz in the 1970s and produced a few albums.

He was the focus of a documentary in 1980 titled "Joe Albany ... A Jazz Life" and his daughter Amy Jo "AJ" wrote the memoir "Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales From Childhood" concerning him. The book received favorable reviews. [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1582343330/]

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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/music/muze/index.pl?site=radio2&action=biography&artist_id=710&rand= BBC Radio 2]


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