HENDERSON, JR., FLETCHER HAMILTON

HENDERSON, JR., FLETCHER HAMILTON (SMACK). Jazz pianist-arranger (18 December 1897 in Cuthbert, Georgia; 28 December 1952 in New York, New York). He came from a musical family: both parents played piano and his brother Horace became a professional musician. He studied piano from the age of six until he was thirteen years old. He obtained his musical education at the local private school, where his father was a teacher; at the preparatory school of Atlanta [Georgia] University; at Atlanta University,...