TUCKER, ROBERT NATHANIEL

TUCKER, ROBERT NATHANIEL (BOBBY). Jazz pianist/Accompanist (8 January 1923 in Morristown, New Jersey). He began piano study at the age of four with local teacher Isabel Pope and sang in a chuch choir from an early age until he was eighteen. After a few years of neglecting the piano, he became seriously interested when he was thirteen and studied with Cecily Knechtel. Later he studied conducting and arranging privately. During his service in the U.S. Armed Forces (1943-46),...