Tuts Washington
Sign in to saveAmerican Louisiana blues pianist
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1924-08-29
- Active to
- 1963-12-14
bluesjazzr&brhythm & bluesstandardstraditional pop
Discography
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- 3,317
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New Orleansbluespianojazzboogie woogie
A longtime staple of the New Orleans blues and boogie-woogie community, pianist Isidore "Tuts" Washington was a primary influence on later Crescent City players spanning from Professor Longhair to Allen Toussaint to Fats Domino. Born January 24, 1907, he began teaching himself piano at the age of ten; inspired by the itinerant New Orleans musician Joseph Louis "Red" Cayou, Washington amassed a vast repertoire of songs by memorizing performances by area brass bands, then quickly returning home to
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New Orleans
- Place of death
- New Orleans
- Occupation
- pianist
- Genre
- Louisiana blues
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Rounder Records
- Image
- Tuts Washington at piano.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1907-01-24
- date of death
- 1984-08-05
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- Commons category
- Tuts Washington
- name in native language
- Tuts Washington
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