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Dan Rodricks: Jazz virtuoso Cyrus Chestnut mourns the man 'who taught me piano' | Arts & Entertainment


Lovers of music owe a special debt to the Baltimore postal worker who introduced Cyrus Chestnut to the piano. That single act — a father bestowing the gift of music on his son in the 1960s — resulted in the creation of some of the best improvisational jazz and spiritual renderings of the last 30 years.
McDonald Chestnut, a self-taught pianist and organist who played in Baptist churches in Baltimore and Bel Air, Maryland, died last week of pneumonia at 85. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Flossie Chestnut, and his son, one of the top jazz pianists in the world.
“My father, the one who taught me piano, transitioned today,” Cyrus Chestnut wrote on his Facebook page on May 20. After I expressed condolences on the phone Monday night, he recalled something his father had told him: “You know, son, I could have left you an inheritance in money, but I exposed you to music, and that will take you for the rest of your life and sustain you.” ....

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