Jazz pianist Kenny Drew was born in New York, New York on August 28, 1928. He
started receiving piano lessons at the age of five, later attending the High
School of Music & Art in Manhattan. He made his first recorded appearance in
1950 on a session with Howard McGhee and spent the next few years working with
jazz icons like Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and others. He
put together a trio featuring Curly Russell on bass and Art Blakey on drums and
released the debut Kenny Drew Trio album New Faces, New Sounds in 1953. Three
years later, he returned to the trio fo...