CHATMAN, PETER (MEMPHIS SLIM
). Bluesman ( in Memphis, Tennessee). His father played piano and guitar; he began playing piano professionally before he was sixteen. The chief influence upon his piano style was
Roosevelt Sykes
. In 1937 he went to Chicago; within a short while he had won recognition as a top blues pianist and in 1940 he began to record. The same year he joined Big Bill
(William Lee Conley) Broonzy
, whose group also included
Sonny Boy Williamson,...