BUCKNER, MILTON

BUCKNER, MILTON (MILT). Jazz organist (10 July 1915 in St. Louis, Missouri; 27 July 1977 in Chicago, Illinois). He came from a musical family: two brothers, Theodore (Ted) and George , became professional jazzmen. Left an orphan at nine years old, he went to Detroit, Michigan, to live with an uncle, John Tobias, who taught him piano. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Detroit and at the Detroit Institute of the Arts. He began playing professionally about 1930...