Teddy Wilson (Find A Grave)
Orchestral pianist, violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger of the Swing to Bebop eras, Teddy Wilson was born Theodore Shaw Wilson on November 24, 1912, in Austin, Texas. He and his brother Gus Wilson, however, were reared on the campus of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), Alabama, as his father, James Wilson, was chairperson of the English department, and his mother, Pearl Wilson, was the Library Director.
Teddy Wilson began classical piano studies in Tuskegee at seven. He began playing the…
