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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1956-05-11
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Pianist Mike LeDonne was born in Bridgeport Connecticut in 1956. He was raised in his parent's music store and by the age of 10 his father, a jazz guitarist, began booking him on gigs. At age 21, Mike graduated from New England Conservatory and moved to New York City with the Widespread Jazz Orchestra. In 1981, he left Widespread to travel to the UK with Panama Francis and the Savoy Sultans. On returning, he began a two-year stint as the house pianist at Jimmy Ryan's, then one of New York' s o
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mike
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bridgeport
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- swing
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Mike-LeDonne DSC00954.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1956-05-11
- Commons category
- Mike LeDonne
- start of work period
- 1988-00-00
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