HENDERSON, HORACE

HENDERSON, HORACE. Jazz pianist-arranger (22 November 1904 in Cuthbert, Georgia). He came from a musical family: both parents played piano and his brother Fletcher became a professional musician. He obtained his musical education at the local private school, where his father was a teacher; at Atlanta [Georgia] University; and at Wilberforce [Ohio] University (B.A.). He studied piano informally with his mother as a child, then began formal lessons when he was fourteen years old. While at Wilberforce...