The Piano Players Tour is where all the piano players are buried or interred.
Piano Players Tour Map
Piano Players Tour Map -> Google Maps
Piano Players Tour Information
Piano Players Tour Information -> PDF files
Seymour Lee Abernathy
James Alston
Joshua Altheimer
Albert Ammons
Lillian Hardin Armstrong
Cora “Lovie” Austin
Charles Anderson Avery
Richard Evans “Two Ton” Baker
James L. “Jimmy” Blythe
Judson Brown
Reginald Waymond “Sonny” Burke
Daniel Burley
Harold E. Burrage
Robert “Bob” Call
Glover Compton
Robert L. “Prince” Cooper
John Henry “Blind John” Davis, Jr.
William “Will” Ezell
Edgar Cecil “Piano C. Red” Fain
Leroy Roscoe “Blind Leroy” Garrett
Charles Harvey “Barrelhouse Chuck” Goering
James Hairston
Lillian E. “Lil Diamonds” Hardaway
Arthur W. “Art” Hodes
Tony Jackson
Johnnie “Little Johnny” Jones
Lafayette C. Leake
Clarence Lofton
Albert Luandrew “Sunnyland Slim”
“Professor” Eddie Lusk
Marian McPartland
Eurreal Wilford “Little Brother” Montgomery
Aaron Moore
Orlando Chester Murden
Joseph E. Nathaniel
Iromeio “Romeo” Nelson
Charles Clifford “Charlie Bozo” Nickerson
George Noble
James Burke “St. Louis Jimmy” Oden
Horace Milton Palm
Hartzell Strathdene “Tiny” Parkham
Everett “Happy” Robbins
Charles “Charlie” Segar
Ezra Norma (Rowlett) Shelton
Clarence “Pinetop” Smith
Lloyd William Smith
Otis Spann
Douglas “Doug” Suggs
George Washington Thomas, Jr.
Earma Jean (Grant) Thompson
Johnny Mayon “Big Moose” Walker
Eddie Lee Watson “Lovie Lee”
Emery Williams, Jr. “Detroit Junior”
Frank “Sweet” Williams
Alonzo Yancy
“Jimmy” James Edward Yancy
ALBERT AMMONS (1907-1949) – GRAVE
Boogie Woogie
Albert Ammons was a boogie-woogie pianist who influenced many later piano players, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Dr. John.
[ Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island – Lot TLA, Lot 122, Row SW 1/2 – 41°40’13.9″N 87°42’07.1″W]
ALBERT AMMONS LINKS
Albert Ammons -> Wikipedia
LILLIAN HARDIN ARMSTRONG (1898-1971) – CRYPT
Jazz
Lil Hardin Armstrong was a piano player, composer, arranger, singer and bandleader. She was Louis Armstrong’s second wife, and they worked together in the 1920s. She also taught Louis how to dress better and to present himself better.
[ Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island – Garden of Peace, Wall G, Tier 5, Crypt 63 – 41°40’07.9″N 87°42’05.0″W]
LILLIAN HARDIN ARMSTRONG LINKS
Lil Hardin Armstrong -> Wikipedia
