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Theodore Shaw “Teddy” Wilson was born in Austin, Texas on November 24, 1912. His parents were both teachers and they left Austin to move to Talladega, AL in 1918 where they both taught at Tuskegee College.
Wilson studied music at Tuskegee Institute and at Talldega College. After college Wilson and his brother, Gus, moved to Toledo, [...]

Ben Webster studied the violin in elementary school. Later he taught himself how to play piano and played with a few bands. After hanging around with Budd Johnson for some time, one day he asked him, “How do you run a scale on that thing?” Budd Johnson showed him how to play a C scale [...]