Jelly Roll Morton, the self-proclaimed "ventor of jazz," didn't praise many people bis himself, but he ma an exceptn for Tony Jackson: "Tony was nsired among all who knew him the greatt sgle-hand entertaer the world.” And Jackson was openly gay at a time when that was credibly rare.
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GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?
He studied unr Frank Bridge, John Ireland and Arthur Benjam among others, and was also a fe ground-breakg operas, which clu Peter Grim (1945), and The Turn of the Screw (1954) – and his famo War Requiem – tackle ntemporaneo issu around psychology and post-war trma, as well his own homosexualy, which was illegal Brten’s lifetime.