Don Blackman
Sign in to saveProdigious jazz-funk pianist, versatile recording artist, performed with Parliament Funkadelic
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- 2
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- Tropiline Bajan Design
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1953-09-01
- Active to
- 2013-04-11
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Pianist/singer/writer Don Blackman, born 1953 in Queens, NY, grew up surrounded by jazz influences; a cousin was McCoy Tyner's friend and saxophonist Charles McPherson — a Charlie Parker disciple — was Blackman's neighbor. Blackman played with McPherson's group in 1968 alongside Sam Jones and Louis Hayes when he was 15 years old. He switched to electric piano and toured with Parliarment/Funkadellic in the early '70s. He later became an original member of Lenny White's Twennynine ("Peanut Butte
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Don
- Family name
- Blackman
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Queens
- Occupation
- composer
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Arista Records
- Official website
- web.archive.org/web/20140903115211/http://www.blackmanmusic.com
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- date of birth
- 1953-09-01
- date of death
- 2013-04-11
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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