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Phineas Newborn Jr.

Phineas Newborn Jr. has been played on NTS in shows including Record Store Rotation: Flashback Records, featured first on 3 March 2015. Songs played include Reflection.

Phineas Newborn, Jr. (December 14, 1931 – May 26, 1989) was an American jazz pianist, whose principal influences were Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and Bud Powell.

Newborn came from a musical family: his father, Phineas Newborn, Sr., was a blues musician and his younger brother, Calvin, a jazz guitarist. Phineas studied piano as well as trumpet, and tenor and baritone saxophone. Before moving on to work with Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, and others, Newborn first played in an R&B band…

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Reflection
Roy Haynes, Phineas Newborn, Paul Chambers
New Jazz1959
Reflection
Roy Haynes, Phineas Newborn, Paul ChambersNew Jazz1959
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