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Teddy Wilson (born Theodore Shaw Wilson, May 24, 1912, in Austin, Texas; died July 31, 1986, in New Britain, Connecticut) was an American jazz pianist. He grew up in Tuskegee, Alabama, where he studied piano and violin at Tuskegee Institute and graduated with a music degree in 1929. He then played in territory bands across the South and Midwest before moving to New York in 1933.<\/p>\n

In 1935 he joined the Benny Goodman Trio with drummer Gene Krupa; Lionel Hampton joined the following year to make it a quartet. It was one of the first racially integrated jazz groups to perform in public, and it made Wilson a national name. Between 1935 and 1938 he recorded dozens of sides for Brunswick and Columbia as \u201cTeddy Wilson and His Orchestra,\u201d with Billie Holiday singing on many of them; \u201cWhat a Little Moonlight Can Do\u201d and \u201cI Cried for You\u201d became models for jazz singing, and the same sessions included Lester Young, Roy Eldridge and Coleman Hawkins. He led his own big band briefly in 1939.<\/p>\n

From the 1940s on he worked mostly as a soloist and trio pianist. He taught at the Juilliard School from 1945 to 1952, one of the first jazz teaching posts there, and from 1965 spent many years on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music in Boston. His playing joined a classical evenness of touch to the relaxed phrasing of swing: the left hand kept a steady harmony and pulse while the right hand spoke in short, clear sentences. Later pianists came to treat that as the standard vocabulary of swing piano. He received the NEA Jazz Masters award in 1986.<\/p>\n

This catalog adds \u201cThe Creative Teddy Wilson\u201d (1955, Norgran MGN-1019) and \u201cThe Touch of Teddy Wilson\u201d (1957, Verve MG V-8330). The first is a trio date supervised by Norman Granz with Milt Hinton on bass and Jo Jones on drums, twelve standards running from \u201cIt Had to Be You\u201d and \u201cYou Took Advantage of Me\u201d to \u201cApril in Paris\u201d and \u201cGet Out of Town,\u201d with a cover designed by David Stone Martin. The second collects twelve ballads and medium-tempo pieces from his Verve years, among them \u201c’S Wonderful,\u201d \u201cSomeone to Watch Over Me\u201d and \u201cThat Old Feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cover photograph by William P. Gottlieb, public domain; body photograph by William P. Gottlieb at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C., showing Teddy Wilson with drummer Zutty Singleton, public domain. Both from Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n

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Teddy Wilson (left) with drummer Zutty Singleton at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (File:Teddy Wilson and Zutty Singleton.jpg).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most elegant pianist of the swing era: a member of the Benny Goodman Trio, Billie Holiday’s accompanist on her 1930s recordings, and the first to bring a classical evenness of touch into jazz piano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":130709,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","discogs_artist_id":"254769","artist_discogs_id":"254769","artist_spotify_id":"0tg5uVI4VjzZOFzBryJZii","artist_tier":"legendary","artist_is_featured":"1","artist_discogs_url":"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/254769","artist_spotify_url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/0tg5uVI4VjzZOFzBryJZii","spotify_artist_url":"","apple_music_url":"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/artist\/teddy-wilson\/118623","artist_apple_music_url":"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/artist\/teddy-wilson\/118623"},"artist_type":[2,3096],"music_genre":[490,485],"class_list":["post-130711","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist_type-person","artist_type-3096","music_genre-swing","music_genre-jazz"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTeddy Wilson - Jazzmore<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Teddy Wilson - Jazzmore\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jazzmore.cn\/en\/artist\/teddy-wilson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teddy Wilson - Jazzmore\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Teddy Wilson - Jazzmore\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/jazzmore.cn\/en\/artist\/teddy-wilson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Jazzmore\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-11-12T00:12:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/jazzmore.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/teddy-wilson-cover-en.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jazzmore.cn\\\/en\\\/artist\\\/teddy-wilson\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jazzmore.cn\\\/en\\\/artist\\\/teddy-wilson\\\/\",\"name\":\"Teddy Wilson - Jazzmore\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jazzmore.cn\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jazzmore.cn\\\/en\\\/artist\\\/teddy-wilson\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jazzmore.cn\\\/en\\\/artist\\\/teddy-wilson\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jazzmore.cn\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/11\\\/teddy-wilson-cover-en.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-11-12T00:11:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-11-12T00:12:56+00:00\",\"description\":\"Teddy Wilson - Jazzmore\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jazzmore.cn\\\/en\\\/artist\\\/teddy-wilson\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/jazzmore.cn\\\/en\\\/artist\\\/teddy-wilson\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jazzmore.cn\\\/en\\\/artist\\\/teddy-wilson\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jazzmore.cn\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/11\\\/teddy-wilson-cover-en.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jazzmore.cn\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/11\\\/teddy-wilson-cover-en.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":640,\"caption\":\"Half-length portrait of Teddy Wilson by William P. 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